The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa has increased to 150. This is an increase of 34. President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed the numbers on Thursday. Meanwhile, China has recorded no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19.
But, it has imported 34 cases, mainly from Spain and Britain. Gauteng has 61 confirmed cases. Of these, eight are local transmissions. Out of all the patients, seven are aged 60 or above, placing them in a higher risk category because patients at an advanced age could have compromised immune systems. The same goes for young children. In this province, one patient is a 3-year-old boy, who was infected locally.
The Western Cape has 31 confirmed cases. Two of these were transmitted on local soil. Five patients are aged 60 or above, and two 3-year-olds and one 2-year-old have been infected.
KwaZulu-Natal, where the first infection was registered, had 19 cases by Wednesday of which three were local transmissions. One patient is 79 years old, while two boys, aged 5 and 3, were infected locally.
In Mpumalanga there are four cases, of which one is a local transmission. Among them is a 64-year-old man who travelled to Italy. By Wednesday, that country had recorded more than 31 500 cases and more than 2 500 deaths.
A single case of Covid-19 has been reported in Limpopo – a 29-year-old man who had travelled to France and the Netherlands. On Wednesday, the Curro Heuwelkruin private school in Polokwane issued a letter directing some of its Grade 10 pupils to self-quarantine because the mother of a pupil had been in close contact with the province’s first Covid-19 patient.
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Source: eNCA