This week much of the focus globally has been on increasing conflicts between the Ukraine and Russia, with many countries calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the senseless attacks. While it will likely remain the focus over the weekend, we also have COVID-19 in South Africa to contend with locally.

To that end, the latest report from the National Department of Health (NDoH) is much like we have seen in recent weeks, with numbers steadily climbing but no surging as the week progresses.

More specifically, the past 24 hours has seen 2 411 new cases recorded, as the total number of infections recorded to date now climbs to 3 667 560.

The department also noted that 40 fatalities have been reported too, along with no mention of the ongoing audit, so we can hopefully trust that figures in this metric are accurate. Consequently, the death toll related to COVID-19 in South Africa has increased to 99 018.

As for other key figures in the report, the recovery rate remains unmoved from the previous day at 96.4 percent and more than 22.99 million tests have been conducted to date.

Shifting to the vaccine rollout, the efforts to increase turnout is yet to have an effect, with only 84 084 jabs administered in the past 24 hours. As of 17:00 on 24th February 2022, a total of 31 309 353 vaccines have been administered across the country.

The full outlook for COVID-19 in South Africa follows on below:

• COVID-19 Connect on WhatsApp – add 0600 123 456 as a contact and say “Hi”.
• World Health Organisation
• SA Coronavirus website
• SA Government
• SA Presidency

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