Johannesburg - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 153 more deaths owing to Covid-19, as well as 13104 new infections, taking the total confirmed cases over 408 000.
South Africa, with 408 052 cases, has the fifth highest confirmed cases in the world. Only the US, Brazil, India and Russia have more cases in the world. Deaths in the same period have risen from 0 on March 21, to 58 on April 21, to 369 on May 21, 1930 by June 21 and 5368 by July 21. On Thursday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that public schools would close for at least four weeks during the Covid-19 peak. But Grade 12s and their teachers, would only close for a week and Grade 7s would close for two weeks.
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