Mkhize told a roomful of hospital managers from Dora Nginza, Livingstone hospital and Uitenhage Provincial hospital that there should be no more delays in releasing the figures.
on Wednesday that health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize had slated Eastern Cape officials for not releasing their death statistics on a daily basis.
“MEC, your reporting of deaths must be as they come and on a daily basis,” he told health MEC Sindiswa Gomba. “We want to know what the figures are every day." He added:"We know there are challenges with death reporting because there are those whose comorbidities were worsened by the virus, which resulted in their deaths.
"Others died around the period of Covid-19 and all these must be investigated, but we are saying there’s a process of tracking deaths; we still want daily reports.The ministry also announced on Wednesday night that there were now 229,175 recoveries - a recovery rate of 58%., while South Africa has the fifth most cases globally, its mortality rate of 100 per 1 million of the population ranks 40th.
The figures are based on 2,585,474 tests - of which 48,553 were done in the most recent 24-hour cycle.
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