CORONAVIRUS UPDATE - SOUTH AFRICA - BIGGEST ONE DAY INCREASE AT 252 SA NOW HAS 3034 CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen to 3034. This is 251 up from the previous figure. The number of fatalities stands at 52.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize made the announcement at a media briefing on Saturday.
“As of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases has gone up to 3034 and this comes out of a total of 108 021 tests that have been conducted to date. Gauteng still has the largest number of people who are positive. The number is 1101. Western Cape is next at 836,” says Mkhize.
The Western Cape government says it does not rule out the possibility of cremating people who have died due to the coronavirus, should the need arises.
Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo says it’s because of the unique nature of COVID-19.
She says cremation are widely used in overseas countries, and added that the contagious nature of the coronavirus, can change funeral traditions.
“Of course! Although in South Africa, we don’t have as much compared at this stage, internationally, where people are dying in numbers like in the US, but there might be a time. As I said, we don’t know how the disease will evolve. There might be a time where either cremation or mass burial which we have seen in New York City, but we are not there at that level yet.”
Epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist Professor Salim Abdool Karim, who also chairs government’s advisory committee on COVID-19 says his team is using technology built for the 2010 soccer world cup to fight COVID-19. He says the technology created by the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, uses a data collection method to track community-based COVID-19 cases.
via - SABC
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE - SOUTH AFRICA - BIGGEST ONE DAY INCREASE AT 252 SA NOW HAS 3034 CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES
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