South Africa has lost more than 18 000 to COVID-19 after 165 more people died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Of the latest fatalities, 50 are in KwaZulu-Natal, 31 in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, 28 in Free State and 11 in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, five more people who succumbed to the respiratory disease are in Limpopo and Northern Cape and four in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
This brings the death toll to 18 028 since the outbreak in March. <\/p>\n
According to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, 18 of the recorded deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe extend our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers that treated the deceased patients,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In addition, the cumulative number of detected COVID-19 cases has jumped to 694 537 after 1 178 patients were confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n
Also, 625 574 patients have recuperated which translates to a recovery rate of 90%, while 4 433 952 tests have been conducted with 15 534 new tests conducted since the last report.<\/p>\n
More than 37 million cases have been reported worldwide, including 1 079 029 deaths reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa has lost more than 18 000 to COVID-19 after 165 more people died on Tuesday. Of the latest fatalities, 50 are in KwaZulu-Natal, 31 in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, 28 in Free State and 11 in the Western Cape. Meanwhile, five more people who succumbed to the respiratory disease are in Limpopo and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-168702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}