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COVID-19 in South Africa: 12th August

Earlier this week we saw the death toll  in South Africa surpass the 10 000 mark as a result of COVID-19. While this does not make for good reading in terms of the SA’s efforts to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears as if the number of new daily infections is falling.

It is still too early to say whether we are indeed flattening the curve on the spread of the virus, but the National Department of Health (NDoH) recorded 2 511 new infections over the past 24 hours.

This is significantly less than a couple of weeks ago, where we regularly climbed past the 10k mark for new daily infections.

For now the department has not commented on why the rate of new infections has declined so rapidly, but testing still appears to be high, with 3 278 977 tests completed to date.

Following the latest figures, our number of cases throughout the country currently sit at 566 109, with 426 125 recoveries also recorded. This translates to a recovery rate of 75.27 percent, which at least bodes well for the newly recorded cases.

As for the 50 unallocated cases that we’ve been seeing for the past few weeks, they remains the same, but precisely why they are yet to allocated is unclear for now.

The full breakdown of COVID-19 in South Africa is as follows:

Province Confirmed Cases Recoveries Active cases Deaths
Western Cape 100 316 87 998 12 318 3 454
Eastern Cape 82 715 77 550 5 165 2 286
Northern Cape 6 861 3 391 2 859 68
Free State 29 209 13 478 15 731 414
KwaZulu-Natal 100 494 56 758 43 736 1 450
North West 22 031 12 245 9 786 150
Mpumalanga 19 533 16 416 3 117 149
Gauteng 194 093 150 082 44 011 2 653
Limpopo 10 807 8 207 2 600 127
Unknown 50
TOTAL 566 109 426 125 139 984 10 751

As always, in order to stay up to date with the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and abroad, we advise the following materials and platforms:

[Image – Photo by Jacques Nel on Unsplash]

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