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Health workers at a quarantine site in Pietermaritzburg. Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images As of 16 July, South Africa has a total of 324 221 confirmed Covid-19 cases.Gauteng has recorded 117 895 cases, which translates to 36.4% of the total cases in the country. As of Thursday, 216 new Covid-19 related deaths have been recorded,…

San Luis Obispo County says a sixth county resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died.Health officials say the individual was in their 90s and lived at a long-term care facility for the elderly. They say the patient was infected through person-to-person spread at the facility."This disease is spread person-to-person in SLO County, which means…

Covid-19 has devastated the Eastern Cape, and exposed the province's public healthcare shortcomings.At least 24 healthcare workers have died in the province, and about 800 have contracted Covid-19.One Eastern Cape undertaker reports an increase in 50 percent of bodies because of the pandemic.The tentacles of coronavirus have snaked into the Eastern Cape, delving stealthily into…

SA's Covid-19 death toll has increased by 93 to 4 172. The total number of coronavirus infections has risen to 287 796 confirmed cases nationwide, an increase of 11 554 infections.Late on Monday night, positive cases worldwide were more than 13.07 million while deaths were more than 570 000.A further 93 South Africans had succumbed to…

America's coronavirus death rate has started going up again, driven by Florida, Texas and other states in the South and West where infections have exploded in recent weeks. Stark figures reveal the long-expected upturn in the nation's daily death toll has begun, with another 802 fatalities recorded Friday.The seven-day rolling average has jumped by almost 100…