Johannesburg - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 286 more Covid-19 related deaths and 6275 new infections on Thursday night.
This takes South Africa’s Covid-19 death toll to 11 556, and infections, to over 579 140. South Africa has the fifth most Covid-19 infections in the world, behind only USA, Brazil, India and Russia. Although the number of new infections has slowed in South Africa, as has the rate of testing in the past week, daily deaths remain high.
In the past four days, 935 people have died in Covid-19 related deaths. On Tuesday, 130 people were announced to have died, another 259 on Wednesday, 260 more on Thursday night and 286 were announced on Friday’s daily update. The Department of Health said it had now tested over 3.3 million people in the private and public sector, with over 35 000 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.The Western Cape still has the most deaths, with 3534, Gauteng with 2867, Eastern Cape with 2442 and KZN, with 1617, have the most fatalities in the country.Gauteng - 76
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