South Africa is edging closer to a 1.6 million COVID-19 caseload, after 1 548 patients were confirmed to have contracted the virus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified since the outbreak now stands at 1 599 272 in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The Minister also announced 71 additional deaths related to Coronavirus, bringing the tally to 54 896.<\/p>\n
Of the latest fatalities, 23 are from the Free State, while both Gauteng and the Northern Cape recorded 16 each.<\/p>\n
In addition, eight deaths occurred in the Western Cape, five in KwaZulu-Natal and three from the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers who treated the deceased patients,\u201d said Mkhize.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the recovery rate is still holding steady at 95% after 1 519 258 patients recuperated so far, while the country has 25 118 active cases.<\/p>\n
The information is based on the 10 931 906 tests of which 26 075 were conducted in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said there are 158 651 638 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3 299 764 deaths, with 1 206 243 409 administered vaccine doses.<\/p>\n
Global view<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the WHO, the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths globally decreased slightly this week, with over 5.5 million infections and over 90 000 deaths.<\/p>\n \u201cCase and death incidence, however, remains at the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d the organisation added.<\/p>\n According to the WHO\u2019s weekly epidemiological update, the additional weekly cases decreased in the regions of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, while the South-East Asia region continued an upward trajectory for nine weeks and reported a further 6% increase last week.<\/p>\n Death incidence peaked in the South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions, while India continues to account for 95% of cases and 93% of deaths in the South-East Asia region, as well as 50% of global cases and 30% of global deaths.<\/p>\n The organisation said the \u201cworrying\u201d trends have been observed in neighbouring countries, which have been showing a sustained upward trend in cases and deaths over several weeks.<\/p>\n The highest numbers of new cases were reported from India (2 738 957 new cases, 5% increase), Brazil (423 438 new cases, similar to the previous week), the United States (334 784 new cases, 3% decrease), Turkey (166 733 new cases, 35% decrease), and Argentina (140 771 new cases, 8% decrease). \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa is edging closer to a 1.6 million COVID-19 caseload, after 1 548 patients were confirmed to have contracted the virus on Tuesday. According to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified since the outbreak now stands at 1 599 272 in South Africa. The Minister also announced 71 additional […]<\/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-188649","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\/188649","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=188649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}