South africa coronavirus
African COVID deaths top 100,000
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.