South Africa’s coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery rate has remained on 95%. This as the country has recorded 1 294 new COVID-19 cases, as announced by the Department of Health on Thursday evening. The latest figures bring the cumulative number of infections to 1 549 451. Of those cumulative figures, 1 474 826 have recovered from the virus which tells of a positive story amid the pandemic and the sterling work done by healthcare professionals, with a recovery rate at 95%.
The cumulative total of tests conducted is 9 912 073 with 32 725 tests completed since the last report.
There have, unfortunately, also been 51 new fatalities in the country bringing the total number of COVID-19-related deaths to 52 897.
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Meanwhile, the Western Cape Health Department Head, Keith Cloete, says the vaccination roll-out programme for all residents in the province is expected later in April.
Members of the public, who are older than 60 years and those who have other chronic illnesses, will be first in the queue.
Over 50 000 health workers have received their vaccines thus far as part of the ongoing Sisonke trial.
Cloete was joined by Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde, as he unveiled COVID-19 safety plans for the Easter Weekend during a weekly digital conference with the media.
“We are expected more from Sisonke by the second week of April, whatever we receive, health workers will be vaccinated from there in addition to that Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson, they will arrive in bigger quantities during April into May then we can complete healthcare workers and then we will be moving to the general public.”
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has called on pharmaceutical firms, manufacturing the COVID-19 vaccine, to make enough for everyone in the world or voluntarily hand their technology to developing countries.
WTO’s Head, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says it is not acceptable to leave poorer countries at the end of the queue for vaccines.
Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged that members were split on the issue of relaxing WTO rules on intellectual property so that more drug manufacturers can make the vaccines.
World Trade Organisation’s waivers on COVID-19 vaccines:
Dlamini-Zuma briefed the media on the revised COVID-19 regulations following the president’s Tuesday night address, in which he informed the nation of the government’s decision to keep the country under Level 1 this Easter:
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