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During the last 24-hour cycle, 3,105 new COVID-19 infections were identified, bringing the total number of cases to more than 762,000.
FILE: The Minister of Health, Dr. Zweli Mkhize, during a walk at Dora Ngiza Hospital in Port Elizabeth on July 23, 2020. Image: @ DrZweliMkhize / Twitter
JOHANNESBURG – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the Eastern Cape had recorded more than half of the country’s COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with growing concern of a second wave.
During the last 24-hour cycle, 3,105 new COVID-19 infections were identified, bringing the total number of cases to more than 762,000.
• READ: South Africa registers 3,105 new cases of COVID-19
According to the Health Department, 88 more deaths have been added, bringing the death toll to 20,759.
The recovery rate is recorded at more than 707,000.
Mkhize said the new wave from the Eastern Cape was a big concern.
“The numbers are increasing. It is a new wave, it is not the previous one. But if you compare it with the other provinces, you can, for example, see in the Free State that what we are dealing with is a decreasing number of the first wave, which was delayed, just like the Northern Cape and Limpopo. But right now the Eastern Cape is different in that it was much lower, the numbers are starting to rise and that is why we are sending the message that they are now getting into in troubled waters. “
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