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COVID-19 in South Africa: 26th July 2021

Last night President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation regarding COVID-19 in South Africa, focusing specifically on what level of lockdown the country would be moved to, with the past four weeks being at level 4 in order to curb the spread of the delta variant of the virus.

While the delta variant is proving more devastating than past variants of COVID-19, the President and his Cabinet chose to move the country to alert level 3 lockdown as of 22:00 last night. Key changes sees the curfew pushed back slightly, inter-provincial travel allowed once again, gatherings permitted under certain circumstances and the sale of alcohol during specific hours reestablished.

What impact this will have on the spread of the virus remains to be seen, but Ramaphosa did note that government is looking to ramp up its vaccine rollout efforts, with those aged 18 to 34 allowed to receive vaccines from 1st September onwards. As of 17:00 on 25th July, 6 384 382 jabs have been administered to date.

As for the latest report from the National Department of Health (NDoH) on COVID-19 in South Africa, the past 24 hours has seen 9 718 cases being recorded as the total climbs to 2 377 823. The recovery rate now sits at 90.87 percent, while 287 new fatalities have unfortunately been reported, pushing the death toll to 69 775.

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

Provinces Confirmed Cases Recoveries Active cases Deaths
Western Cape 382 224 336 681 30 887 14 656
Eastern Cape 223 477 204 662 6 243 12 572
Northern Cape 65 383 58 914 4 786 1 683
Free State 126 276 108 305 12 340 5 631
KwaZulu-Natal 385 385 354 034 20 028 11 323
North West 123 827 97 800 23 146 2 881
Mpumalanga 120 062 110 837 7 572 1 653
Gauteng 843 204 790 174 36 408 16 622
Limpopo 107 985 96 776 8 095 3 114
Unknown 0
TOTAL 2 377 823 2 158 183 149 505 70 135

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 Marcel Eberle on Unsplash]

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