The minister said SA was being hamstrung in its efforts to ramp up testing further due to the global shortage of testing kits.
South Africa’s net death rate has decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic over the past five weeks – despite the 186 deaths thus far.
Mkhize confirmed that South Africa has 9,420 coronavirus cases, with the Western Cape being the biggest contributor to these numbers. Asked why the Western Cape had significantly more Covid-19 infections than the rest of the country, Mkhize said one of the features of the pandemic in the province was the outbreak in “clusters” of infections. These were primarily in factories and busy retail areas.Mbombo said the provincial government had developed a new “supermarket etiquette” to guide the behaviour of both shop owners and their customers.
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