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On Friday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, along with scientists, announced that they have identified a much more serious variant of COVID-19 here at home.
A healthcare professional wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treats a patient at a store dedicated to treating potential COVID-19 coronavirus patients, while another cleans the ward at Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria on July 10, 2020. Image: AFP
JOHANNESBURG – With the second wave of COVID-19 officially registered across the country, provinces that posted slow infection rates are now seeing a rapid increase in cases.
The Limpopo Health Department said 239 cases were reported in the past 48 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the province so far to 19,771.
The department said 522 people had died from deaths related to COVID-19.
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MEC Phophi Ramathuba said the social gatherings were fueling the infections.
“We have seen that, as a province, the overall provincial active case risk ratio is now 11.1 per 100,000 people.”
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On Friday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, along with scientists, announced that they have identified a much more serious variant of COVID-19 here at home.
“This is a version of the virus that the scientists want to tell us what has happened in terms of the findings. This genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, has sequenced hundreds of samples from around the world. country since the beginning of the pandemic in March. They noted that a particular variant has increasingly dominated the findings from samples collected in the last two months. “
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