The number of South Africans who have tested positive for
Covid-19 has increased to 1,462.
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize gave the update at the
Universitas Hospital in the Free State after a visit on Thursday.
He said that the current official death toll linked to
Covid-19 was five, but that there were “two reported deaths that we are trying
to get correct information about”. He said that the number of recoveries was
“close” to 45.
“The total number that have tested positive is 1,462, and
so there has been quite an increase,” he said.
On Wednesday evening, he said that the number of confirmed
cases was 1,380 — meaning that there has been an increase of 82 over the last
24 hours.
He said that there has been a “restraint in the numbers”,
which he put down to, among other factors, the “impact of the lockdown”, “the
fact we have closed the borders” and that because “people are in their homes
means there is not mixing up in large volumes”.
But he admitted that the number could rise as more people
are tested.
“We need to get out and go and find more and more of the
people who are positive in the community,” he said.
On Wednesday, Mkhize said that the current slower increase
in the number of cases could be the “calm before a heavy and devastating
storm”. Times
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