South Africa has recorded over 1 540 000 COVID-19 cases after 1 048 people tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to the official statistics released by Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the country now has 1 540 009 confirmed infections since the first case was reported last year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the death toll has reached 52 372 after 121 patients succumbed to the respiratory disease.<\/p>\n
Of the latest fatalities, the Free State and Limpopo provinces recorded 38 deaths each in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Also, 24 deaths were recorded in Gauteng, eight in the Northern Cape, five in KwaZulu-Natal and four each in the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers who treated the deceased,\u201d said Mkhize.<\/p>\n
The recovery rate is still holding steady at 95% after 1 466 595 patients beat COVID-19 since the outbreak, with 21 042 active cases.<\/p>\n
KwaZulu-Natal remains the hardest-hit province with 5 614 patients who are currently infected.<\/p>\n
The province is followed by the Western Cape with 4 816 active cases, 2 573 in the Northern Cape, 2 490 in Gauteng, 2 151 in the North West, 1 524 in Free State, 941 in Mpumalanga and 725 in Limpopo.<\/p>\n
The information is based on the 9 690 819 cumulative tests of which 25 155 were performed since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n
The Minister said the number of healthcare workers vaccinated as of Wednesday is 207 808.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation, there have been 123 902 242 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, including 2 727 837 deaths, while 431 895 992 vaccine doses have been administered as of 24 March. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa has recorded over 1 540 000 COVID-19 cases after 1 048 people tested positive for the virus on Wednesday. According to the official statistics released by Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the country now has 1 540 009 confirmed infections since the first case was reported last year. Meanwhile, the death toll has reached 52 372 after […]<\/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-184391","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\/184391","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=184391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}