JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's COVID-19 spike has taken the country to more than 1 million confirmed cases on Sunday and President Cyril Ramaphosa called an emergency meeting of the National Coronavirus Command Council. “We are not helpless in the face of this variant,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Richard Lessells told The Associated Press. South Africa announced a cumulative total of 1,004,431 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday evening. That number includes 26,735 deaths in a country of 60 million people. “One million cases is a serious milestone, but the true number of cases and deaths is almost certainly much higher,” Lessells said.

Source: Daily Sun December 27, 2020 18:00 UTC