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Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. Gallo Images/Darren Stewart A total of 1 861 new Covid-19 cases have been identified in the past 24-hour cycle, with 77 more people losing their lives to the virus.  Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said, as of Thursday, the cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases was 667 049.  "The cumulative number of tests conducted to…

The Liberty Fighters Network says people shouldn't rely on the government's Covid-19 figures. The group threatened to approach the courts after President Cyril Ramaphosa's address on Sunday night. LFN also accused the government of not caring about the elderly.The Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) says the Covid-19 figures provided by the government cannot be trusted.The organisation's president Reyno…

New data released Monday shows stark disparities in coronavirus death rates across New York City neighborhoods.The New York City Health Department for the first time released data on coronavirus deaths broken down by the city’s more than 60 ZIP codes, showing that some neighborhoods are experiencing death rates almost 15 times higher than others. The data demonstrates the…

Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust, an emergency medicine physician and instructor at Harvard Medical School, has published a blog post on Scientific American calling on the Center for Disease Control to change the way it reports flu deaths, suggesting that those figures may be misleading the public about the lethality of the coronavirus. Dr. Faust draws attention…