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CT authorities probe cause behind woman who died while hiking on Table Mountain
It's believed the 42-year-old woman either slipped or tripped and fell on Saturday morning.
The country, much like many other nations across the globe, is in the grips of a second wave of the pandemic.
The start of the desperately awaited vaccine program coincided with several European countries announcing new lockdowns amid spiralling infections, highlighting the long road to ending the global pandemic.
In the past 24-hour cycle, 3,198 more people contracted the disease pushing the national caseload past 785,000.
The Health Ministry said 1,863 new infections were picked up over the past day bringing the number of known cases since the start of the outbreak to over 719,000.
Gauteng accounts for 31.7% of the infections, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 17%
While the epidemic in South Africa is still relatively stable infections in Europe are still rising relentlessly.
In just the last week, the country has been overtaken by Spain and Argentina, which have around 10,000 more cases than South Africa.
The country is gearing for an easing of lockdown regulations as the rate of infection appears to be stabilising.
South Africa has now slipped to the seventh-worst affected nation in the world in terms of the number of infections.
The Health Ministry on Friday said 1,846 cases were recorded, bringing the total number of infected people to 533,935.
Nearly 5,900 people are dying every 24 hours from COVID-19 on average, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past two weeks.
The province is dealing with just over 16,000 active cases of COVID-19.
The respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus has been particularly dangerous for the elderly, although other adults and children are also among the 500,000 fatalities and more than 10 million reported cases.
In its daily report, the Health Department said the total number of confirmed cases in the country had risen to 131,800.
It represents a new phase in the virus’ spread, which initially peaked in China in February, before large-scale outbreaks followed in Europe and the United States.
The Western Cape continues to be the province with the most cases with 3,362, followed by Gauteng with 1,661 and then KwaZulu-Natal with 1,106.
The province has now had 38 deaths and 1,935 infections.
Two more people, from KwaZulu-Natala and the Western Cape, have died from the disease, bringing the total number of deaths to 54.