Active cases have climbed from 1 279 last Friday to 2 590 in seven days. The hotspots are the Inner City, Joburg South, Soweto and Merafong City.
Johannesburg – Gauteng’s active Covid-19 infections have increased by more than 50% in one week, data released by the provincial health department shows.
Active cases – those of people who are currently infected and have not recovered or died as a result of the virus – have climbed from 1 279 cases last Friday to 2 590 cases in seven days. The province’s mortality rate remains at 1% , while the recovery rate has decreased from 61% last week, to 47%. The data also showed that on Wednesday, June 3, Gauteng recorded its highest daily increase of new infections since the virus arrived in South Africa in March. A day later, on Thursday, 272 more people were infected – the second highest increase since March. On May 25, it was the first time the province had recorded more than 250 new infections in a single day since the virus was confirmed in the country.
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