Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 121 more Covid-19 related deaths, 1985 new infections and over 540 000 recoveries for South Africa to date.
South Africa has the sixth most Covid-19 infections in the world, behind only the USA, Brazil, India and Russia. Peru recently overtook South Africa to become the country with the fifth most infections in the world.
Although the number of new infections has slowed considerably, as has the rate of testing in the past week, daily deaths are also starting to slow, although they are still over 100 per day. The Department of Health said it had now tested almost 3.7 million people in the private and public sector, with over 18 800 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.The Western Cape still has the most deaths, with 38933, Gauteng with 2, Eastern Cape with 2442 and KZN, with 2139, have the most fatalities in the country.
Of the latest 121 deaths, Mkhize said the most deaths came from the Western Cape, Limpopo, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and the Free State provinces.
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