Johannesburg - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 176 more Covid-19 related deaths and 2 336 new infections on Thursday night.South Africa has the sixth most Covid-19 infections in the world, behind only the USA, Brazil, India and Russia. Peru recently overtook South Africa to become the country with the fifth most infections in the world.
Although the number of new infections has slowed considerably, as has the rate of testing in the past week, daily deaths are also starting to slow, although they are still over 100 per day. The Department of Health said it had now tested over 3.7 million people in the private and public sector, with over 20 000 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.The Western Cape still has the most deaths, with 3946, Gauteng with 3730, Eastern Cape with 2956 and KZN, with 2203, have the most fatalities in the country.
Of the latest 176 deaths, Mkhize said the most deaths came from the Gauteng, KZN, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape.
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