Cape Town - South Africa's confirmed Covid-19 cases now stand at 45 973, with 44 more deaths reported over the past 24 hours, according to the latest statistics released by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Saturday.The national death toll stands at 952.
"We are saying the pandemic is going to be with us for a long time. We can't abandon schooling and economic activity. We can see some children are doing e-learning, but the bulk of the children don't have activity to be part of e-learning. This is a problem of us trying to walk together," said Mkhize.Earlier this month, Mkhize told Parliament that modelling available to the Health Ministry forecast a peak in infections around mid-July, in a pessimistic scenario.
“They present in similar ways. Flu is generally more severe, however, Covid, in a small proportion of patients, becomes very severe and then often leads to death," Prof Karim commented in a video posted on the National Health Insurance Facebook page. “Our problem is going to be that if we simultaneously have our flu season and our Covid pandemic, we’ll have problems teasing them out. So we’ll have patients who actually have flu coming in to our clinics and hospitals to be treated for Covid-19, and in the process they may be exposed to Covid-19 because our hospitals will be so full of Covid-19 patients.
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