Faizel Patel – 09/07/2020
The Health Department has announced it has reached a milestone of two million COVID-19 tests.
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted to date is 2,000,569, this is an increase of 56,170 which were done in the last 24 hours.
In the latest update the Health Department says that the number of COVID-19 infections in South Africa has risen to 238,339.
This is an increase of 13,674 from Wednesday’s announcement.
The number of deaths has also increased by 129 bringing the total to 3,720.
Gauteng has the most infections with 81,546 followed by Western Cape at 74,815, Eastern Cape at 44,432, KwaZulu-Natal 19,630, Free State 3,724, North West 7,870, Mpumalanga 2,902, Limpopo 2,381, Northern Cape 1,039 and unallocated infections 0.
The total number of recoveries to date is 113,061, which translates to a recovery rate of 47,4%.
“Regrettably, we report a further 129 COVID-19 related deaths – 1 from Northern Cape, 26 from KwaZulu Natal, 28 from Eastern Cape, 37 from Gauteng and 37 from Western Cape.”
Mkhize also indicated that the current total deaths in Limpopo is 33 not 44 as reported yesterday.
“This was a data interpretation error which has been corrected. Reallocation has since been done and we have confirmed the current total with the province. Therefore the total COVID-19 deaths today is 3,720.
Mkhize has expressed his condolences to the affected families of those who have succumbed to the pandemic.
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