South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 recovery rate is edging towards 92%, Heath Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
According to the Minister, 671 579 patients recuperated since the outbreak which translates to a recovery rate of 91.7%.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases is 732 414 after 1 866 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Also, 92 more people died from respiratory disease, which pushes the toll to 19 677.<\/p>\n
Of the new Coronavirus-related deaths, 27 are from the Eastern Cape, 23 from the North West and 17 from Free State.<\/p>\n
Five provinces recorded single-digit fatalities, of which eight were from the Northern Cape, seven from Gauteng, five from the Western Cape, four from KwaZulu-Natal and one from Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe extend our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers that treated the deceased patients,\u201d Mkhize added.<\/p>\n
Free State now has more active cases compared to other provinces sitting at 10 942, followed by KwaZulu-Natal 7 145, Gauteng 5 860 and Eastern Cape 4 648.<\/p>\n
The Western Cape has 4 283 active cases, North West 3 565, Mpumalanga 622, Limpopo 562 and Northern Cape 353. <\/p>\n
The information is based on the 4 917 625 tests of which 23 942 were conducted since the last report.<\/p>\n
Globally, there have been 47 930 397 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1 221 781 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 recovery rate is edging towards 92%, Heath Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said on Thursday. According to the Minister, 671 579 patients recuperated since the outbreak which translates to a recovery rate of 91.7%. Meanwhile, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases is 732 414 after 1 866 new cases were detected in the last 24 […]<\/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-171251","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\/171251","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=171251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}