COVID-19 daily tracker

The COVID-19 daily tracker is an easy guide to daily developments of this pandemic, globally and for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa specifically. The PDF (see link in email body, top right) contains a series of informative graphs. 

• The global total of COVID-19 cases is 5,100,912 cases and 329,896 deaths have been confirmed. Recoveries from the virus have increased to 2,033,488. The number of cases in the US has increased to 1,593,039, accounting for 31% of global cases; the death toll is 94,941. The number of infections in California is beginning to increase again after its lockdown was eased. Russia has 317,554 confirmed cases and 3,099 deaths, while Brazil has 293,357 cases and 18,894 deaths. The UK has 248,293 cases; the death toll is 35,704.
• Confirmed cases in Africa now stand at 94,170; fatalities on the continent are 2,975.
• SA has 18,003 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 339 deaths. This is an increase of 803 new cases; 8,950 people have recovered from the virus. The Western Cape has the highest number of confirmed cases at 11,262 (accounting for 62% of the total); 210 deaths have been reported. Gauteng has 2,400 cases (accounting for 13% of the total) and 27 deaths. The Eastern Cape has 2,215 cases and 45 deaths, while KwaZulu-Natal has 1,650 cases and 46 deaths. SA reported its first neonatal COVID-19 death yesterday.
• A total of 506,861 tests were conducted since 5 March; 18,252 tests were conducted yesterday. 54% of these were in the private sector while 46% were conducted in the public sector.