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COVID-19 in South Africa: 5th November

“Remember, Remember, the 5th of November,” holds a bit more weight today as we await the results of the US Presidential elections, as well as it being the first day that the country’s Matric students will be writing exams during a pandemic. Speaking of which, the National Department of Health (NDoH) has released its latest figures for COVID-19 in South Africa.

To that end the department confirms that 1 712 new cases for the virus have been recorded over the past 24 hours, pushing the country’s total to date to 730 548.

There have also been more than 4.89 million tests that have been conducted to date, along with the NDoH reporting that 660 185 recoveries have been recorded. Unsurprisingly, this translates to a recovery rate of 90 percent, which still shows no signs of moving, staying fixed at that rate for some time now.

Unfortunately 46 new fatalities have been recorded too, pushing the total number of deaths related to COVID-19 to 19 585. Of the new 46, the NDoH says 24 are from the Eastern Cape, nine from Gauteng, three from the Free State, five from KwaZulu-Natal, one from the Northern Cape and four from the Western Cape. 

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

Provinces Confirmed Cases Recoveries Active cases Deaths
Western Cape 118 009 109 385 8 624 4 384
Eastern Cape 98 622 90 919 7 703 3 786
Northern Cape 22 134 18 303 2 859 284
Free State 57 430 43 902 13 528 1 531
KwaZulu-Natal 123 497 113 203 10 294 3 237
North West 33 629 29 652 3 977 452
Mpumalanga 29 998 28 816 1 182 606
Gauteng 229 490 209 243 20 247 4 845
Limpopo 17 739 16 762 977 460
Unknown 0
TOTAL 730 548 660 185 70 363 19 585

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 Markus Winkler on Unsplash]

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