South Africa's top government confirmed infections New Corona July 11 5:06
In Africa, where more than 500,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus, South Africa, where more than 40% of the infected people are concentrated, has been confirmed to be the state's top infection in succession, and there are calls to reinforce the restrictions on going out. It has come out.
According to the AU = African Union, more than 540,000 people were infected with the new virus on the African continent by the 10th, and 230,000 people, more than 40% of the total, were concentrated in South Africa.
Under these circumstances, the state ministers leading South African provincial governments have been infected one after another, and the state ministers in the northwestern and western cape states have been infected to date, followed by the largest city of Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria on the 10th. The Governor of Makhla, the state of Gauteng, is also infected.
Both state ministers have mild symptoms and are willing to continue working while spending time at home.
In South Africa, step-by-step relaxation of restrictions on going out has been promoted since May, but recently it has been rapidly increasing with more than 8,000 infected people per day, the second largest after the United States, Brazil and India. It has become.
Some experts and government officials have argued that the restrictions on going out should be tightened again.