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By IOL Reporter 
9h ago
Cape Town – A total of 1,480 new Covid-19-related cases have been identified in South Africa, and the cumulative number of detected cases stands at 668,529.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement on Friday that the number of recoveries now stands at 599,149, which translates to a recovery rate of 89.6%.
” Sadly, we reported 29 more Covid-19 related deaths: 5 from the Eastern Cape, 5 from KwaZulu-Natal, 5 from Gauteng, 2 from Limpopo, 8 from the Northern Cape, and 4 from the Western Cape. This brings the total number of Covid-19 related deaths to 16,312, ”Mkhize said.
The cumulative number of tests carried out to date is 4,117,079, with 14,917 new tests carried out since the last report.
SA has fallen to the tenth position in the Worldometers ranking of countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The pandemic has increased slightly this week, with 295,000 new cases registered on average per day worldwide, a 3% increase from the previous seven-day period.
The infection rate is the fastest growing in Europe, adding 22% compared to the previous week. The number of new daily cases has nearly quadrupled in Europe since the beginning of July, to 57,900 this week, down from around 15,000.
There has also been a jump in the Middle East, with 13% more, the United States and Canada (11%) and Africa (8%). However, the growth of cases has slowed in Oceania (26% less), Asia (6% less) and Latin America and the Caribbean (4% less).
The number of infections is increasing further in Belgium, with 75% more or 1,600 new cases on average per day. It is followed by the Czech Republic with 69% more, or 2,200 cases per day, the Netherlands (64%, 1,900), Great Britain (48%, 5,000), Canada (39%, 1,200), Israel (35%, 5 300) and France (33%, 11,700).
Meanwhile, China’s annual Covid-19 vaccine production capacity is expected to reach 610 million doses by the end of 2020, the country’s National Health Commission said on Friday.
Production capacity of the vaccines is forecast to reach 1 billion doses per year by 2021, said Zheng Zhongwei, director general of the commission’s Center for Medical Science and Technology Development.
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