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By IOL Reporter 
5h ago
Cape Town – A total of 8,319 new cases related to Covid-19 were recorded on Friday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
This means that a cumulative total of 845 083 Covid-19 cases have been reported. Mkhize has expressed concern about an exponential increase after 6,709 new cases were identified on Wednesday and 8,166 on Thursday.
A total of 205 more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported (up from 173 yesterday and 135 on Wednesday): Eastern Cape 96, Free State 10, Gauteng 20, KwaZulu-Natal 20, Limpopo 2, Northern Cape 15 and Western Cape 42, with the province passing the 5,000 mark, joining Gauteng and the Eastern Cape. This brings the total number of deaths to 22,952.
A cumulative total of 5,779,544 tests have been completed, with 44,074 new tests performed since the last report. The number of recoveries now stands at 758,373.
EThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda confirmed on Friday that while the beaches, usually packed with thousands of tourists, will not be closed, events will be banned.
Kaunda said that as part of a multidisciplinary campaign, Operation Vala, which aims to protect tourists and residents from crime and the Covid-19 pandemic, measures will be implemented.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it was working quickly to issue an emergency use authorization for Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine, with the first Americans to be vaccinated on Monday or Tuesday.
An FDA external advisory panel voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of the vaccine’s emergency use, paving the way for the agency to authorize the injection in a country that has lost more than 285,000 lives to Covid-19.
Britain said on Friday it will cut the self-isolation period for Covid-19 to 10 days from 14, in a change that will apply both to those who are presumed to have been in contact with someone with the virus within the country and to those arriving from the Foreign. .
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