Second wave
KZN authorities say they’ve started planning COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Government said it's secured over 20 million vaccine doses to be administered in the first half of the year.
With the country hit by a second wave of COVID-19 undertakers are seeing more and more bodies.
Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Tuesday gave clarity on amendments to the level three restrictions, saying it was difficult to ascertain how long South Africa would be under a state of disaster.
Provincial health officials said coronavirus infections were rising in all the province’s districts.
The total number of confirmed infections reported in the country since March has now reached nearly 1,150,000.
South Africa has passed the 100,000 mark in active cases, 14,386 of those are in Gauteng while close to 33,000 are in the Western Cape.
Government has introduced restrictions in beaches in both provinces in an effort to claw back their epidemics.
At least 1,679,114 people have died since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.
Europe has become the first region in the world to pass 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the pandemic broke out a year ago, killing more than 1.6 million worldwide and pitching the global economy into turmoil.
The country, much like many other nations across the globe, is in the grips of a second wave of the pandemic.
Winde said he's written to President Cyril Ramaphosa requesting he reconsider the move.
These latest fatalities confirmed overnight to bring the country's death toll to 24,011.
According to the Department of Health 175 more deaths were reported, 93 coming from the Eastern Cape, bringing the country’s total death toll to 23,451.
Over the weekend, he met with Cabinet to discuss saving lives versus livelihoods.
This according to a statement by the Presidency on Sunday evening.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared parts of the Eastern Cape as hotspots, introducing stricter measures in Nelson Mandela Bay.
This as the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine gets positive peer-reviewed results.
The country has officially entered the second wave of the virus with the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng being the key drivers of the virus.
The Health Minister is visiting the Garden Route in the Western Cape and will relay his findings to national structures.