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By IOL Reporter 
7h ago
Cape Town – A total of 1,027 new Covid-19-related cases have been identified in the country, and the cumulative number of detected cases stands at 683,242, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday.
There have been 87 more Covid-19-related deaths, compared to 40 yesterday: 4 in the Eastern Cape, 35 in KwaZulu-Natal, 28 in Gauteng, 5 in the Northwest and 15 in the Western Cape, Mkhize said. This brings the total number of deaths to 17,103.
“Our recoveries are now 616,857, which translates to a 90% recovery rate,” Mkhize said.
The cumulative number of tests carried out to date is 4,294,931, with 14,591 new tests carried out since the last report.
Meanwhile, Britain’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that it had purchased 1 million Covid-19 antibody tests that can indicate if someone has had the disease within 20 minutes.
The ministry said it had purchased the tests, which use a fingerstick device and do not need to be sent to a laboratory, from the UK Rapid Testing Consortium.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned European countries on Tuesday of “pandemic fatigue,” which it says threatens the continent’s ability to cope with the coronavirus.
“Although fatigue is measured in different ways and levels vary by country, it is now estimated to have reached more than 60 percent in some cases,” WHO Director for Europe Dr. Hans Kluge said in a release.
He said this is based on “aggregate survey data from countries in the region.
“Citizens have made enormous sacrifices in the last eight months to try to contain the coronavirus,” he said.
“In such circumstances, it is easy and natural to feel listless and unmotivated, to experience fatigue.”
Kluge called on European authorities to listen to the public and work with them in “new and innovative ways” to reinvigorate the fight against Covid-19, which is on the rise across Europe.
A 40-year-old American woman who underwent a Covid-19 nasal smear test experienced more than just uncomfortable itching and tingling – the smear procedure ended up breaking the lining at the base of her skull, causing the cerebrospinal fluid will leak through the nose. and putting her at risk of brain infection.
The case was reported in the medical journal JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery this week.
Doctors wrote that the patient had a rare, undiagnosed condition and that the test she received may have been performed incorrectly, leading to the rupture, meaning that the health risks associated with nasal swab tests remain. very low.
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