Health Minister Zweli Mkhize can be seen during a press briefing on updates on the coronavirus in South Africa at the Civitas building is Pretoria CBD, 9 March 2020. Picture: Jacques Nelles
The country has recorded 193 new Covid-19 related deaths: 8 from Eastern Cape, 103 from Gauteng, 36 from KwaZulu Natal, 33 from Western Cape and 13 from Mpumalanga. This brings the cumulative number of deaths to 8,005. He said another reason to be hopeful lies in the recovery rate, which has now increased to 66%, showing that more people were overcoming the virus, he said.
Mkhize said lessons on case management and discovery of effective medication, such as dexamethasone, and early use of oxygen and other regiments, had resulted in low mortality – consistently below 2%. He added that innovative stock surveillance solutions were now required to monitor corruption, price gouging and maldistribution of the equipment.
He added that the participation in the Solidarity Trial for therapeutics and the ChAdOx-1 study for vaccine development were critical to favourably position the country for access to the tools when they became available on the market.
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