Coronavirus in south africa
58 more COVID-19 fatalities push SA death toll to 52,846
The recovery rate is still at 95%, with 1.4 million people having recuperated.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again tightened regulations specifically around liquor sales for the Easter holidays.
As the long weekend approaches, there's been fevered speculation that President Cyril Ramaphosa might opt to increase the lockdown level.
Role players in the hard-hit sector are waiting to see whether President Cyril Ramaphosa could announce stricter lockdown regulations for the Easter long weekend.
The health department said 1,387 new cases have been recorded in the same day, pushing our known caseload to 1,544,000.
Officials said that they were seeing a decline in cases, admissions and deaths.
South Africans were looking forward to the Human Rights Day long weekend, the Easter break, and school holidays under lockdown level 1, but experts warn this may result in increased risk for a third COVID-19 wave.
Speaking during a Gauteng provincial coronavirus command council update, the premier said he was particularly worried about public gatherings as the province prepares for the long weekend and the Easter break.
With the Easter break approaching, Professor Bruce Mellado, said that the number of infections within communities was showing a slow uptick and could pose as a threat in stabilising the infection rate.
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Over 1,500 news cases were reported in the last 24-hour cycle, pushing the country's total cases to over 1, 528,000.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reports the country is currently dealing with just over 26,000 cases of the coronavirus.
The health department also confirmed 1,225 new infections over the same 24 hours, which means SA recorded 1,526,873 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Most deaths were recorded in Kwazulu-Natal with 46 fatalities, followed by Gauteng with 33 and 26 in the Free State province.
The health department released a statement shortly after the arrival of the second batch of the J&J vaccine, saying it was ahead of its vaccination targets with more than 63,000 frontline healthcare workers receiving their jab in the past 10 days.
In the last 24 hours, 1,654 infections have also been reported, with more than 1.5 million positive cases identified since the start of the pandemic.
Days earlier, the cabbage and pumpkin on her plate were strewn in a pile of discards from South Africa's largest fresh produce market, waiting to be incinerated.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has said the delay in the national immunisation campaign meant that the province would have to adapt its own rollout plan, but added that there would be no disruptions.
Some nurses said that they wished that government had not rushed into the vaccination process and over-committed itself to healthcare workers.