South africa coronavirus
SA's daily reported COVID-19 cases surge to 21,584
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said Gauteng accounts for the majority of new cases (59%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West...
Graphic looking at countries with the highest coronavirus death tolls, and their respective death rates.
The continent, relatively spared by the pandemic, is the last except Oceania to reach the threshold of 100,000 deaths, which Europe crossed in April 2020.
The Health Department has confirmed 434 more fatalities were recorded over the past 24 hours.
The total number of coronavirus infections since the pandemic hit our shores in March sits at over 810,000.
One-hundred-and-sixty fatalities were recorded in the past 24 hours.
Visitors have flocked from the capital Pretoria and financial hub Johannesburg since the government allowed South Africans to travel for leisure within their provinces last week.
Six months after the World Health Organisation declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 680,000 people and infected more than 17.5 million, according to an AFP tally.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has released a statement to the nation after the country recorded more than half a million confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
The stringent measures aimed to curb the spread of the virus give government time to prepare the healthcare system.
Saturday marked the 100th day of lockdown for South Africa, which has imposed some of the strictest stay-at-home measures in the world since March 27 in a bid to limit the spread of COVID-19.