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By IOL Reporter 
9h ago
Cape Town – After the country recorded 956 new Covid-19-related cases yesterday, it fell further to 772 on Tuesday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement.
“As of today, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases detected is 651,521. The cumulative number of tests performed to date is 3,940,217, with 11,603 new tests performed since the last report,” Mkhize said in a release.
“Sadly, we reported 142 more Covid-19 related deaths: 16 from KwaZulu-Natal, 12 from Gauteng, 4 from Eastern Cape, 13 from Western Cape, 11 from Northern Cape, 19 from Mpumalanga and 67 from Limpopo. This brings the total number of Covid-19-related deaths to 15,641.
“Our recoveries now stand at 583,126, which translates to a recovery rate of 89.5%.”
While South Africa has so far recorded about 48 percent of the total number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Africa, the actual number of people who became infected could be much higher, possibly 18 times more, according to estimates extrapolated from antibody studies shows. .
The revised models “currently predict that there are probably around 12 million” South Africans with detected or undetected coronavirus, Mkhize said. “This translates to about 20% of the population.”
Meanwhile, Professor Salim Abdool Karim says the country is now in a “new post-Covid normal” but is concerned that “over-broadcast” events could spark a second resurgence of cases.
The chairman of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee told 702 on Monday that certain events, including large gatherings, still need to be treated with extreme caution when the country moves to lockdown level 1, and President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to make an announcement today.
“Where there are a large number of people, it is not always easy to implement social distancing and the use of masks, etc. In those environments, we have to have a situation where we reduce our risk of super spread events, “he said.
Germany is donating around R98 million to feed Cape Town families affected by the Covid-19 closure, but on the condition that at least 20% of the beneficiaries are foreigners.
Furthermore, the German Development Bank KfW said that half of the spaza stores where digital coupons are spent must be owned by foreigners.
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