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COVID-19 in South Africa: 9th November

Over the weekend, much of the world collectively exhaled as Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential elections, but we’re not out of the woods yet as Donald Trump looks to fight the decision in court. The same goes for the coronavirus pandemic, and closer to home, we’ve seen the number of cases for COVID-19 in South Africa continue to rise.

To that end, the National Department of Health (NDoH) says 1 372 new cases have been recorded over the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s total to date to 727 278. The department also notes that 679 688 recoveries have been recorded, which sees the recovery rate rise to 92 percent.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa first confirmed that we would be moving to alert level 1 lockdown, he noted that the figure of 98 percent in terms of recovery rates, but it remains to be seen if that is the key figure for SA to move out of lockdown entirely.

Shifting back to the statistics, unfortunately 20 new fatalities have been recorded, as only two provinces have given updated numbers.

Here, 19 of the new 20 are from the Eastern Cape and one is from Gauteng. Whether this will result in a higher number of new fatalities later today, is unclear, but the total number of deaths related to COVID-19 now sits at 19 809.

The full breakdown of COVID-19 in South Africa is as follows:

Provinces Confirmed Cases Recoveries Active cases Deaths
Western Cape 119 242 110 365 8 877 4 397
Eastern Cape 101 336 92 126 9 210 3 878
Northern Cape 22 396 18 418 2 859 295
Free State 57 935 45 872 12 063 1 564
KwaZulu-Natal 124 011 115 344 8 667 3 255
North West 33 855 29 809 4 046 475
Mpumalanga 30 274 29 083 1 191 607
Gauteng 230 299 221 662 8 637 4 862
Limpopo 17 930 17 009 921 476
Unknown 0
TOTAL 737 278 679 688 57 590 19 809

As always, in order to stay up to date with the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and abroad, we advise the following materials and platforms:

[Image – Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash]

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