{"id":405511,"date":"2020-06-06T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=405511"},"modified":"2020-06-06T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:11:30","slug":"45973-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-jump-to-952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/405511\/45973-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-jump-to-952\/","title":{"rendered":"45,973 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa as deaths jump to 952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of health Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that South Africa now has 45,973 confirmed cases of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>This is up by 2,539 from the 43,434 infections on Friday, when the country reported 2,642 new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The minister announced 44 new deaths, taking the total up to 952, while recoveries increased to 24,258, which translates to a recovery rate of\u00a0 52.8%.<\/p>\n<p>A total of\u00a0 850,871 tests have been conducted to date, of which 30,196 have been conducted over the past 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As of today, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 45 973, the total number of deaths is 952 and the total recoveries is 24 258 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T62CJfeZzM\">pic.twitter.com\/T62CJfeZzM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrZweliMkhize\/status\/1269359346137411585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Globally, coronavirus cases topped 6.85 million globally on Saturday, while deaths have exceeded 398,000, with more than 3.37 million recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>A startling number of Americans are using bleach on food or misusing household cleaners in attempts to protect themselves from the coronavirus, according to a survey published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>An internet panel of 500 people found more than one-third of respondents \u201cengaging in non-recommended high-risk practices\u201d such as applying the cleaners to the skin or inhaling or ingesting them, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report doesn\u2019t directly reference President Donald Trump\u2019s widely denounced suggestion on April 23 that researchers should study using light or disinfectants on humans as potential interventions against the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;We\u2019re at war&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape\u2019s staffing and money shortages will be prioritised as a matter of urgency, as government attempts to deal with an upsurge of Covid-19 infections in the province, president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The president said the lack of money cannot stand in the way of saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe staffing challenges must be solved. We\u2019re at war. We\u2019re fighting a life and death war and staffing challenges must be solved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must headhunt and find all those staff members that we need to bring in and the cost is not an issue here, but saving lives is the issue,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to find the [health workers] and money is not going to be an issue. We must pull out all the stops to save lives,\u201d said President Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defence and Military Veterans, the president said, is ready to bring in personnel to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must also find staff members in various other provinces and health minister [Dr Zweli] Mkhize will make sure they are identified and are brought here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The province constitutes 77% of the deaths reported in the country and there are not enough beds as the number of infections is still expected to peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beds must be increased. It\u2019s better to over-provide, rather than to under-provide because the worst is still to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we\u2019re at war, we should never be found wanting,\u201d the president warned.<\/p>\n<p>While he was pleased with some of the progress made, he raised serious concern on the province\u2019s contact tracing strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s when we upscale our contact tracing that we\u2019ll be able to follow through on all those who are infected,\u201d he said, urging the province to speed up its testing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/405119\/heres-how-much-of-your-income-goes-to-servicing-debt-each-month-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here\u2019s how much of your income goes to servicing debt each month in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of health Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that South Africa now has 45,973 confirmed cases of coronavirus.<\/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-405511","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\/405511","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=405511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405517,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405511\/revisions\/405517"}],"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=405511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}