{"id":400765,"date":"2020-05-22T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=400765"},"modified":"2020-05-22T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:31:17","slug":"20125-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-rise-to-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/400765\/20125-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-rise-to-397\/","title":{"rendered":"20,125 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa as deaths rise to 397"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 20,125 confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increase of 988 cases from the 19,137 cases reported on Thursday when the country recorded 1,134 new infections, whilst the highest daily total of 1,160 new infections was recorded on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mkhize said on Friday (22 May), that the total number of deaths has now reached 397 &#8211; an increase of 28 deaths from 369 reported before.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that 543,032 tests have been conducted, with 17,599 tests in the past 24-hour cycle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19SA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19SA<\/a> As of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 20 125 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid19inSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid19inSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CoronaVirusSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CoronaVirusSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvSiMpFCVR\">pic.twitter.com\/dvSiMpFCVR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GCIS Media Liaison (@GCISMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCISMedia\/status\/1263882360627630081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nGlobally, coronavirus cases topped 5.2 million globally on Friday, while deaths have exceeded 335,000, with nearly 2.1 million recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc have begun recruiting more than 10,000 subjects for advanced human studies of one of the world\u2019s fastest-moving experimental Covid-19 vaccines,&#8221; Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>A smaller part of the trial will expand the age range of testing to children from 5 to 12 years old and adults 56 and older, according to a statement. The other, larger stage will test the vaccine\u2019s effectiveness in volunteers 18 and older.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca received a boost in its efforts to get the immunization tested and ready for use when the US pledged as much as $1.2 billion toward development on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title article-title\"><strong>New police guidelines for South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SA Police Service national commissioner, Khehla Sitole, <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/400541\/new-police-guidelines-for-south-africas-lockdown-including-what-to-do-when-a-person-is-not-wearing-a-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has published a new directive<\/a> aimed at outlining the role of responsibility of police officers during the country\u2019s coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The directive has been published inline with a High Court judgement which ordered the government to \u2018publish a code of conduct and operational procedures regulating the conduct of the SANDF, SAPS and MPSs in giving effect to the State of National Disaster\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComplaints of torture, excessive use of force, inhumane treatment and punishment of the community by enforcement officers (including members of the SAPS) during the State of Disaster have come to the attention of the national commissioner,\u201d Sitole said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConduct of this nature by members of the SAPS is unacceptable and will be dealt with in terms of the criminal law and the disciplinary process of the SAPS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key points outlined in the directive includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The relief commander should instruct members during each parade on their functions and duties, cautioning them regularly and strongly against any use of unnecessary violence;<\/li>\n<li>A member may only arrest a person if he or she has the power (authority) to arrest that person;<\/li>\n<li>Members must ensure that a particular offence exists in law before arresting a person for the commission of an offence;<\/li>\n<li>The directive notes that where certain conduct has not been criminalised (such as the wearing of mask or social distancing), members must sensitise \u2018transgressors\u2019 that their conduct is endangering their health and that of others;The directive also notes that the country\u2019s lockdown regulations change often, and that members should always be up to date with the latest rules;<\/li>\n<li>Members may arrest a person without touching them by \u2018forcibly confining\u2019 them. However, the directive notes that members may use force to effect an arrest only in certain limited circumstances;<\/li>\n<li>Members may not use private equipment not issued by the SAPS such as \u2018sjamboks\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>The directive sets out a clear zero-tolerance approach to torture, and notes the actions which are defined as torture under the Prevention and Combatting of Torture of Persons Act;<\/li>\n<li>The directive also outlines the complaints procedure for members of the public where they believe that an SAPS member has acted unlawfully.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Members refers to SAPS members and personnel.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/400721\/lockdown-time-changes-for-food-delivery-and-public-transport-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lockdown time changes for food delivery and public transport in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 20,125 confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":390209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-400765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400925,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400765\/revisions\/400925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}