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Contact tracing, screening and test referring are our strongest way forward, says Mkhize

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“We need to go around them to test. We also need to scale up the screening of patients in various communities. A total of 456 074 people have been screened thus far in our provinces,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said. CoronavirusInSouthAfrica

Cape Town - The number of coronavirus infections in South Africa has risen to 2 003 with 24 confirmed Covid-19-related deaths, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced on Friday.The breakdown of deaths per province is: Gauteng, 3; Western Cape, 6; KwaZulu-Natal, 12; Free State 3.

“We are checking hospital admissions. There has been no explosion, the numbers of deaths do not show a huge explosion.”

 

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