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As on Wednesday, South Africa recorded a total of 642,431 confirmed cases of Covid-19, with 1,990 new cases identified.
The country has also recorded 82 more Covid-19-related deaths: 10 from KwaZulu-Natal, 27 from Gauteng, 5 from Eastern Cape, 8 from Free State, 10 from North West, 22 from Western Cape.
This brings the total number of Covid-19-related deaths to 15,168.
“We extend our condolences to the loved ones of the deceased and we thank the healthcare workers who treated the deceased patients. Our recoveries are now 569,935, which translates to a recovery rate of 88.7%, ”said Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
Mkhize has said that South Africa has overcome the rise of Covid-19, however, he warned that the country is “not out of the woods just yet.”
During an interview on Wednesday the Radio IslamMkhize said since the first recorded case of Covid-19 in South Africa, the country has done its best, with a number of positive cases now over 640,000, which he said was “an indication of how many people have been in the country”. infected and just over 15,000 deaths related to Covid-19.
“But we can safely say that we have passed the increase,” Mkhize said, adding that June, July and August had been the worst, just as the models had predicted.
“However, we found that there were not as many people as the model had suggested,” Mkhize said, thanking all South Africans “for paying attention to our precautionary measures” that contributed positively to “containing the infection.”
Moving from Level 5 to Level 4 and Level 3 of the closures saw an increase in the number of infections, Mkhize said.
He said that several factors were behind the current decrease in the number of infections and that these include “one of the main factors”, which is “the containment measures” that the government has adopted.
“And there will be other factors in the environment,” he said.
In the past week, South Africa has fallen from number five globally in terms of the number of infections to number eight, Mkhize said, adding that it appears to continue to decline.
“But we are not out of the woods, we must always be careful because it can still increase again as is happening in Spain, it is happening in the United States, it is happening in Iran, Korea, etc.,” said Mkhize.
(Additional reports, Makhosandile Zulu)
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