2020-05-10-whatsapp-cases.txt

Current Status of Cases of COVID-19 in South Africa
10 May 2020 - 20:41

Total cases: 10 015
595 New cases
4173 Full recoveries (Confirmed Negative)  
194 Deaths

The breakdown per province of total infections is as follows:
GAUTENG 1952
WESTERN CAPE 5168
KWAZULU – NATAL 1353 
EASTERN CAPE 1218
FREE STATE 135
LIMPOPO 54
MPUMALANGA 61 
NORTH WEST 45
NORTHERN CAPE 29
UNALLOCATED 0

- A total of 324 079 tests have been conducted to date with 16 327 tests done in the past 24 hours.
- We are saddened to report 8 new deaths, 7 from the Western Cape and 1 from KwaZulu Natal. We have also been advised that one of the deceased was a nurse at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town. We pay special tribute to this health worker.
We express our deepest condolences to the families of the deceased and thank the health care workers who looked after these patients.

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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