South Africa Reports 712 Deaths And 18 Thousand New Infections Of COVID-19 In A Day

Illustration of a quiet atmosphere in Pretoria, South Africa. (Kyle-Philip Coulson / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - South African health authorities reported 712 deaths from COVID-19 overnight. Thus, the total death toll from COVID-19 in South Africa becomes 35,852 people.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize. Launching Anadolu January 15, the coastal province of Kwazulu-Natal reported the highest number of deaths, reaching 232 deaths.

"Next there is the Western Cape Province with 162 deaths, and Guateng which includes the economic center of Johannesburg and the capital city of Pretoria with 144 deaths. There are East Cape 97 deaths and five other provinces which each reported less than 60 deaths," he explained.

According to local media records, in the past three days there were 2,237 deaths from COVID-19 in South Africa. This is obtained from reports of deaths as many as 806 on Wednesday and 755 deaths on Tuesday this week.

Mkhize added that his party had also detected 18,503 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 24 hours, after carrying out 74,830 new tests. The cumulative total of identified COVID-19 cases in South Africa reached 1,296,806 cases.

It is known, South Africa is currently battling the second wave of COVID-19. South Africa's number of deaths and infections from COVID-19 is the highest in Africa and number 16 globally.