Covid-19 cases jump by record 663 to 8,895

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The number of deaths increased by 17, to a total of 178.

The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa as of Friday is 8,895 – an increase of 663 on the previous day’s tally.A total of 307,752 tests have been conducted to date with 15,599 tests done in the past 24 hours.

“As of 7th May we had 435 patients in hospital of which 45 were in high care, 77 were in ICU and, of those, 40 were being ventilated. Our hospitalization rate remains at 5% of all Covid-19 diagnosed patients.”

 

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Forcing Covid19 infected into hospitals with other patients with underlying complications will cause deaths.

Rate of infections found to testing is still 2.9% More testing more infections found.

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