2020-05-07-whatsapp-cases.txt

Current Status of Cases of COVID-19 in South Africa
7 May 2020 - 20:27

Total cases: 8232
424 New cases
3153 Full recoveries (Confirmed Negative)  
161 Deaths

The breakdown per province of total infections is as follows:
GAUTENG 1804
WESTERN CAPE 3994
KWAZULU – NATAL 1204 
EASTERN CAPE 929
FREE STATE 134
LIMPOPO 41
MPUMALANGA 59 
NORTH WEST 40
NORTHERN CAPE 27
UNALLOCATED 0

- A total of 292 153 tests have been conducted to date with 12 774 tests done in the past 24 hours.
- Regrettably, there are  8 more COVID-19 related deaths: 2 from KwaZulu Natal and 6 from Western Cape. This brings the total national deaths to 161.

Due to differences in reporting methods, retrospective data consolidation, and reporting delays, the number of new cases may not always add up sequentially. We are constantly cleaning & deduplicating the data to ensure quality.

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