COVID-19 WRAP | SA records just under 5,000 virus cases & SA to receive first batch of vaccines tomorrow

"As of today, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases detected in South Africa is 1,453,761, and 4,525 new cases have been detected since the last report."

Eastern Cape 191,997

Free State 76,279

Gauteng 388,620

KwaZulu-Natal 315033

Limpopo 57,981

Mpumalanga 65,054

Northwest 57,154

Northern Cape 32,010

Western Cape 269,633

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Vice President David Mabuza, Chairman of the Interministerial Vaccine Committee, will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa tomorrow, February 1, 2021. Joined by Min Health Min Ntshavheni

If anyone writes a book about the protracted battle between SA and the Covid-19 pandemic, Monday will mark a new chapter-anticipation, hope and possibility.

This chapter will mark the beginning of our climax. Previously, there were many pages describing the country's 11-month campaign to best prevent the spread of infection and save lives.

These pages will attract the tears of many medical staff, who watch the patient holding their breath. Describes the despair of the breadwinner, who lost his job in an economy that has shrunk due to necessary life-saving restrictions; and drew pictures of silent streets.

At least two revellers participated in Ballito's Matric Rage event in the second half of last year and tested positive for the coronavirus.

The National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NICD) disclosed this in its latest bulletin, which analyzed data from the so-called "super spreader incident."

NICD stated that it received from

Kenya said on Friday that in addition to the 24 million vaccines it has ordered, it is seeking another 11 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine and hopes to vaccinate 16 million people by June next year.

Additional doses will be purchased from major pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, and these doses will be obtained through the African Union’s Disease Prevention and Control Agency. The country said that if needed, the country will obtain supplies directly from manufacturers.

Mercy Mwangangi, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, told reporters that the East African country with a population of more than 50 million plans to vaccinate 1.25 million people in the first phase of the campaign in June this year. This will cover health and nursing staff as well as security and immigration personnel.

Family members in Mpumalanga and a friend of a public administration graduate were shocked by her death, just after she begged them to send her from Gauteng Hospital.

Daisy Maphosa's mother Linah Ndala told TimesLIVE on Sunday: "I am in Mpumalanga and Daisy works in Johannesburg. I only heard about it yesterday (Saturday). She is sick. We are planning to go to Gauteng and request that she be transferred to the Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria."

She said that Mapusas have always suffered from lung disease. One of her lungs was removed in 2003.

Local Russian news media said on Sunday that despite the ban announced by Kiev, Russia has begun to provide the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine to the Donetsk region controlled by the rebels in eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government plans to start receiving vaccines made by the West in February and ban the use of Russian satellite V.

But it has little control over Donetsk, which borders Russia. Since 2014, clashes between the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatist rebels have killed 13,000 people.

A state-owned newspaper in Zimbabwe reported on Sunday that Zimbabwe has allocated US$100 million to purchase the Covid-19 vaccine, but the government is still waiting for its scientists to recommend which vaccine to buy.

The first batch of Oxford AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine is now arriving in South Africa and will arrive in Johannesburg on Monday.

The vaccine delivered from the Serum Institute in India left Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai on Sunday and bound for OR Tambo International Airport.

Scientists said that the clinical trial data on the two Covid-19 vaccines showed that the first coronavirus variants identified in SA are weakening their ability to prevent diseases, stressing the need to vaccinate large numbers of people as soon as possible.

The federal government said on Sunday that Australia will invite pharmacies to participate in the promotion of the government-funded Covid-19 vaccine because the country has had no locally acquired cases for 14 consecutive days.

SA has received another 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, bringing the total order to more than 42 million doses.

Some companies that have no experience or expertise in Covid-19 hygiene have earned millions of dollars in revenue just by hiring subcontractors to work for the Gauteng government's R431m classroom hygiene plan.

The hawks were packed during an embarrassing standoff with the South African Defense Forces (SANDF) and confiscated controversial South African drugs in a raid, which were stored in the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS) warehouse in Pretoria.

Update: A total of 41,540 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours, with 5,297 new cases, and the positive rate is 13%. Another 318

There have been reports of related deaths, and so far the total number of deaths is 43,951. Read more here:

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