South Africa now has 116 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a statement released by the Department of Health today.
This as the department announced 31 new cases this morning. Of the 31 cases, 16 were from Gauteng, ten from the Western Cape, three from KwaZulu-Natal and two from Mpumalanga.
Currently, Gauteng has the highest number of cases with a total of 61.
The 16 new cases in Gauteng were of:
– A 25-year-old male who travelled to the UK
– A 45-year-old male who travelled to Austria
-A 52-year-old male who travelled to Austria and Italy
-A 49-year-old female who travelled to Austria and Italy
-A 35-year-old male who travelled to the UK and Netherlands
-A 34-year-old female who travelled to the UK
-A 30-year-old female who travelled to Switzerland and Austria
– A 36-year-old female who travelled to Switzerland and Austria
-A 30-year-old female who travelled to Italy
-A 35-year-old male who travelled to Italy
-A 34-year-old male who travelled to Italy
-A 37-year-old male who travelled to Finland and France
-A 20-year-old male with no international travel history
-A three-year-old male with no international travel history
-A 21-year-old female with no international travel history
-A 71-year-old female with no international travel history
KwaZulu Natal’s three cases were of:
-A 59-year-old male who travelled to Austria and Italy
-A 54-year-old male who travelled to Italy
-A 55-year-old male who travelled to Italy
Mpumalanga’s two new cases were of:
-A 64-year-old male who travelled to Italy
-A 56-year-old female with no international travel history
Western Cape’s new cases were of:
-A two-year-old male who travelled to New Zealand
-A 51-year-old male who travelled to Egypt an Dubai
-A 35-year-old female who travelled to Switzerland and Dubai
-A 27-year-old female who travelled to Switzerland and Dubai
-A 60-year-old male who travelled to Portugal and the UK
-A 51-year-old male who travelled to the UK
-A 54-year-old female who travelled to Portugal and the UK
-A 51-year-old male who travelled to the UK
-A 26-year-old female who travelled to the UK
-A 68-year-old male with no international travel history.
Today SA has a further increase of 6 local transmission cases. As part of tracking and tracing, the department of health has collated background information on how these patients were infected. “We will provide information to the public, so as to give a sense of how these local transmissions occur. We will however not disclose full details as this information is subject to patient confidentiality which we are bound by,” the statement read.
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