COVID-19 WRAP | SA records 86 new Covid-19 deaths as cases climb to 765,409

21 November 2020 - 09:27
By TimesLIVE
A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab sample from a child to be tested for the coronavirus disease in Mexico City, Mexico on November 20 2020.
Image: REUTERS/Carlos Jasso A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a swab sample from a child to be tested for the coronavirus disease in Mexico City, Mexico on November 20 2020.

November 21 2020 - 21:08

SA records 86 new Covid-19 deaths as cases climb to 765,409

South Africa recorded 2,646 new Covid-19 cases and 86 new deaths in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday.

November 21 2020 - 10:49

South Australia emerges carefully from Covid-19 outbreak

South Australia was on track on Saturday to end its hard Covid-19 lockdown three days early, recording only one new infection, while other states marked weeks of no new cases or deaths related to the novel coronavirus.

The lockdown, which kept people in South Australia at home and the majority of businesses shut, was imposed earlier this week after false information provided to contact tracers by a man who tested positive raised fears of mass infections.

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