Cape Town - South Africa currently has 350 879 confirmed Covid-19 cases, an increase of 13 285 cases since Friday.
Gauteng leads the count in the country's nine provinces with 128 604 confirmed Covid-19 cases, while the Western Cape has 85 411, and the Eastern Cape has recorded 60 976 cases to date.Data supplied by National Department of Health."The total number of tests conducted to date is 2 422 741 with 49 688 tests conducted since the last report," the department said.Cumulatively, South Africa has recorded 4 948 Covid-19-related fatalities.
On Saturday night Health Minister Zweli Mkhize issued a statement reiterating an appeal he made on June 28 for South Africans to take the pandemic seriously and to adhere to government's strategy and regulations to curb the spread of the virus. While delivering the annual Nelson Mandela lecture on Saturday, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said the Covid-19 pandemic had exposed the fractures that exist in societies.
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