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By IOL Reporter 
1 hour ago
Cape Town – The number of new Covid-19 cases in the country dropped to 14,880 from 18,503 yesterday.
The cumulative number of Covid-19 cases identified in South Africa is 1,311,686, Dr. Zweli Mkhize said in a statement on Friday.
A total of 18,555 new cases were reported on Wednesday, after 13,105 new cases were reported on Tuesday. This follows a peak of 21,862 last Friday.
After 712 deaths from Covid-19 were recorded yesterday, the number of deaths in the country dropped to 615: Eastern Cape 100, Free State 41, Gauteng 99, KwaZulu-Natal 189, Mpumalanga 16, Northern Cape 9 and Western Cape 161. This brings the total number of deaths to 36,467
The number of recoveries now stands at 1,062,690, representing a recovery rate of 80.9%.
The cumulative total of tests carried out to date is 7,498,780, with 65,209 new tests carried out since the last report.
On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa allayed the fears of many South Africans, saying that the Treasury would have the money to fund the long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine.
“There is no way we can say, when it comes to saving the lives of South Africans, that we don’t have the money. The money will be there. You have to be there to save the lives of South Africans. That will be my end result, ”Ramaphosa said.
A campaign launched by the emerging civil society group C19 People’s Coalition is asking for the support of South Africans to ensure that access and allocation of the Covid-19 vaccine is free and fair.
In a statement Friday, he announced that he had launched the Popular Vaccine Campaign, which seeks to mobilize South Africans to help ensure equitable access and allocation of vaccines.
“There is a danger that elites, powerful or dominant medical schemes, private healthcare providers and other corporate interests will undermine access through growing disparities in our two-tier healthcare system and exclude the voices of the workers who belong to state medical schemes, all health workers, frontline workers, working class communities and civil society ”.
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