{"id":413577,"date":"2020-07-05T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=413577"},"modified":"2020-07-05T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:41:06","slug":"196750-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-climb-to-3199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/413577\/196750-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-in-south-africa-as-deaths-climb-to-3199\/","title":{"rendered":"196,750 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa as deaths climb to 3,199"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 196,750 total cases of coronavirus in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increase of 8,773 cases from the 187,977 cases reported on Saturday \u2013 which saw a new 24-hour high for the country of 10,853 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The minister announced 173 new Covid-19 related deaths, taking the total to 3,199 casualties and 93,315 recoveries to date.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1.83 million tests have been conducted, with 38,083 tests conducted over the past 24 hours, Dr Mkhize said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 196 750 with 8 773 new cases reported.<br \/>\n1 830 161 tests have been completed. Today we report a 173 COVID-19 related deaths- 2-NC, 10-FS, 21-KZN, 29-EC, 40-WC,71-GP. Total deaths 3199.Recoveries -93 315 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rElThz2LOL\">pic.twitter.com\/rElThz2LOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of Health (@HealthZA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HealthZA\/status\/1279846727885950978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nGlobally since 31 December 2019 and as of 5 July 2020, in excess of 11.4 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported, with 534,000 deaths and 6.45 million recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The epicenter of the pandemic has continued to shift throughout the year. Starting first in China, then Europe and now\u00a0developing countries like Brazil and India.<\/p>\n<p>Since late March, the US has had the most infections globally\u2014accounting for a quarter of the world\u2019s confirmed cases and deaths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gauteng lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng government has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/413537\/gauteng-government-asks-for-new-hard-lockdown-heres-what-they-want-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> <\/strong>the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) to introduce \u2018hard lockdown\u2019 measures in the province as it faces a surge of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku said that this would include shutdowns of up to two weeks while the province introduces further restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody goes to work and no-one moves. Then the economy opens up again for a particular period of time and then it closes again. So at least there is predictability and you can control infections in that way,\u201d Masuku said.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cWe must put up regulations which we will be able to enforce. One thing that is a problem is people gathering in crowds, that is the first one. So parties, churches, funerals, protests, weddings and all social gatherings are causing a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Some of the key restrictions which Gauteng wants to introduce include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-bind=\"text: $data\">The restriction of movement;<\/li>\n<li data-bind=\"text: $data\">Weddings, protests and church gatherings will be banned.<\/li>\n<li data-bind=\"text: $data\">The number of people who attend funerals would be cut from 50 to 20.<\/li>\n<li data-bind=\"text: $data\">Alcohol sales for off-site consumption would be allowed only once a week.<\/li>\n<li data-bind=\"text: $data\">A shutdown of parts of the economy \u2013 including barring taxis from loading 100% of their capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/412807\/the-new-lockdown-court-case-every-south-african-employee-should-know-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The new lockdown court case every South African employee should know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 196,750 total cases of coronavirus in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":407893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-413577","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\/413577","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=413577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413643,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413577\/revisions\/413643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}