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By IOL Reporter 
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Cape Town – The cumulative number of detected cases related to Covid-19 has risen to 653,444 after 1,923 new cases were identified, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday.
This comes after two days in which the country registered fewer than 1,000 new cases.
Sadly, we reported 64 more Covid-19-related deaths: 24 from KwaZulu-Natal, 14 from Gauteng, 9 from the Western Cape, 6 from the Northern Cape, and 11 from Mpumalanga. This brings the total number of Covid-19 related deaths to 15,705, ” Mkhize said in a statement.
” Our recoveries now stand at 584,195, which translates to a recovery rate of 89.4%.
“The cumulative number of tests carried out to date is 3,961,179, with 20,962 new tests carried out since the last report.”
The chairman of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, during a webinar on Covid-19 and how the Western Cape became the epicenter of Africa, praised the role played by the province.
Karim stressed that the province shared with the nation what they did right and wrong in dealing with the pandemic.
“I think we saw that when you try to deal with adversity, those who are most successful are those who understand our fundamental interdependence.
“Those who have chosen to go with me first, it’s about what I want… individualism emerging in those countries that have seen disastrous responses to the epidemic.
” Nowhere is it clearer than in the United States. We can never have a situation where we can believe that we can be safe, or I can be safe, when you are not safe.
“This virus is about how it is transmitted from you to me or from me to you, you are safe because I am safe. I am safe because you are safe. That interdependence is central to our approach.
“If we are divided and we haggle among ourselves, we are weak, and this virus knows how to exploit weakness when we are weak. Use that as an opportunity to spread out, ”he said.
Karim has rejected claims that Covid-19 cases in South Africa are declining because less testing is being done.
“When we look at the number of cases, we don’t look at it in isolation, we also have to look at the Test and the proportion of positive tests,” he said.
“If we look at those two, they are both going in the same direction, they are going down.”
He said that the number of tests in the last three weeks had been fairly constant and this could also be attributed to the decline in the number of admissions.
Wits University said Wednesday that it has resumed vaccination in the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial, which is also underway in the United Kingdom, Brazil and the United States.
The trial was recently stopped after a British participant fell ill with a suspected adverse reaction, but was expected to recover, Stat News reported.
Wits University said the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority and local ethics committees this week approved the resumption of vaccines in South Africa.
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