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By IOL Reporter 
4h ago
Cape Town – The number of new Covid-19-related cases in the country has soared above the 4000 mark again.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement on Tuesday that the cumulative total of Covid-19 cases stands at 821,889, with 4,011 new cases identified.
The death toll also shot up from 43 on Monday to 183, with the Eastern Cape registering 82, Free State 20, Gauteng 11, KwaZulu-Natal 13, Northern Cape 7 and Western Cape 50. On Sunday, 4,645 new Covid-Se identified 19 cases, with 139 deaths.
This brings the total number of deaths to 22,432, with 753,072 recoveries.
A total of 5,640,042 tests have been completed, of which 28,127 have been conducted since the last report, Mkhize said.
KwaZulu-Natal Prime Minister Sihle Zikalala on Tuesday appealed to parents and students not to organize or participate in celebrations in the province that violate current Covid-19 security protocols and put lives at risk.
“We wish again to warn all those who intend to carry out such events that this is against regulations and we will not hesitate to apply the full scope and power of the law to address such transgressions wherever they occur,” he said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the Gauteng health department revealed that 1,300 students from the province had attended the “superpreader” events in Ballito, KZN.
Everyone who attended Rage events must be quarantined for 14 days and urgently undergo testing, the department said.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration sought to shore up the US vaccine supply Tuesday when a 90-year-old British woman became the first person outside the trials to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
Progress toward a vaccine has offered a glimmer of hope in a pandemic that killed 15,000 people in the US in the past week alone and has overwhelmed hospitals with intensive care patients.
Pfizer is about to get US approval for the vaccine it developed with Germany’s BioNTech, but Britain has already licensed the Pfizer vaccine, allowing Margaret Keenan to receive the first puncture at her local hospital in Coventry. , in central England.
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