Minister Mkhize confirms 5 COVID-19 deaths in SA - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The number of confirmed cases now stands at 1 353 up from 1 326 on Monday. The Minister says the latest death was in Gauteng which remains the province with most confirmed cases of the virus.

virus was the 85-year-old, Pastor John Hlangeni from the Global Reconciliation Church in Bloemfontein. “It is with great sadness that we have to announce that we have lost one person in the Free State to coronavirus. John Hlangeni an 85-year-old man, a well-respected man in the community passed away yesterday in Pelonomi hospital. We are saddened because we are hoping that he would recover because we have a number of recoveries as well,” says Mvambi.Grant recipients die

In KwaZulu-Natal, a 63-year-old woman collapsed in a queue at the Hammarsdale Post Office and in Soweto in Gauteng, a 66-year-old woman collapsed shortly after disembarking from a taxi, near the Pimville Post Office, where she was due to collect her grant. The department is in a process of making additional 2 000 beds available to deal with COVID-19 patients.

“The ordinary bed that we have and services should still have to cope with ordinary people that we have and this is particularly important that everyone who becomes ill must have the same chance of being treated like anyone else. And two, when people are very ill, they need to be provided with all the support they need to make them survive the infection,” says Dr Mbengashe.

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