South Africa has 402 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 128 from Sunday’s announcement.
On Monday, the Health Department confirmed an increase of 128 cases.
The Northern Cape has its first confirmed cases.
The announcement comes just hours ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation on measures to be undertaken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
The President is scheduled to address the nation this evening.
“We will thereafter engage the public to give further details and explanations on the results including the significant rise, the ongoing testing processes, each province’s progress on contact tracing efforts,” said the department.
With the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) still collating and verifying information of patients, the Health Department said the graphs will be updated accordingly.
“Our priority is for provinces to be alerted of the new confirmed cases so that immediate contact can be made with these new patients and ensure that contact tracing starts,” said the department.
The provincial and age group breakdown is as follows:
Province: Positive:
- Eastern Cape 2
- Free State 13
- Gauteng 207
- KwaZulu-Natal 60
- Limpopo 4
- Mpumalanga 9
- North West 4
- Western Cape 100
- Northern Cape 2
- Unknown 1
Grand Total 402
Age Group: Positive:
- Unknown 129
- 1-10years 9
- 11-20years 6
- 21-30years 52
- 31-40years 69
- 41-50years 42
- 51-60years 63
- 61-70years 20
- 71-80years 11
- 81-90years 1
Grand Total 402
– SAnews.gov.za
