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COVID-19 in South Africa: 1st December

It is the 1st of December, which means that the festive season begins in earnest. While that would result in businesses preparing to wind down for the New Year, as well as families finalising plans for the holidays, in a pandemic year, the threat of COVID-19 in South Africa looms large.

This as concerns over a stricter level of lockdown continue as the number of new daily infections shows no signs of slowing down.

To that end the latest report from the National Department of Health (NDoH) sees 2 302 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, with the total number of infections to date now sitting at 790 004.

As was the case yesterday, the NDoH cannot confirm how many tests have been conducted so far, but have noted that the number of recoveries is 731 242, which translates to a recovery rate of 92.56 percent.

Unfortunately though, 58 new fatalities have also been recorded, pushing the country’s total number of deaths to 21 535. Of the new 58, the NDoH says the Eastern Cape accounts for 32, the Free State has five, Gauteng has three, as does KwaZulu-Natal with three and the Western Cape contributes 15.

The full breakdown of COVID-19 in South Africa, sans updated recoveries and active cases, is as follows:

Provinces Confirmed Cases Recoveries Active cases Deaths
Western Cape 132 450 116 125 16 325 4 644
Eastern Cape 127 737 114 808 12 929 4 638
Northern Cape 23 198 20 684 2 859 313
Free State 59 030 51 100 7 930 1 919
KwaZulu-Natal 127 842 117 968 9 874 3 343
North West 34 831 33 315 1 516 549
Mpumalanga 31 375 30 421 954 614
Gauteng 234 957 229 041 5 916 5 009
Limpopo 18 584 17 780 804 506
Unknown 0
TOTAL 790 004 731 242 58 762 21 535

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 Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash]

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