The sons of a Cape Town man who died from Covid-19 carry their father to his grave in Mowbray cemetery, Cape Town.Covid-19 has sent the number of deaths in SA “significantly higher than the predicted number based on historical data”, the Medical Research Council said on Wednesday.said there was an upward trend in all provinces except Mpumalanga, the Northern Cape and North West.
The report highlighted the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal as provinces experiencing an excess number of natural deaths . Authors Debbie Bradshaw, Ria Laubscher, Rob Dorrington, Pam Groenewald and Tom Moultrie, from the MRC burden of disease research unit, cautioned that the statistics in the report should be regarded as estimates.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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