South Africa’s number of confirmed coronavirus deaths has surpassed 10,000. The health ministry says the country with the world’s fifth-largest caseload now has 553,188 patients and 10,210 deaths. South Africa makes up more than half the infections on the African continent, where the total number of cases this past week surpassed 1 million. Experts say the actual number of cases is several times that amount, given the shortage of testing materials and people can have the virus without symptoms.-AP

Source: The Standard August 09, 2020 06:45 UTC