South African Health Minister Mukez announced on social media on the evening of December 9 that South Africa has now entered the second wave of the peak of the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
On that day, there were 6,079 newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Africa, a record high in a single day since the epidemic improved in August.
So far, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in South Africa has reached 828,592, and the number of deaths has reached 22,574.
Mukez said that the number of confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia in most provinces of South Africa is on the rise, especially Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu Natal provinces have become the “severely hit areas” of the epidemic.
He said frankly that South Africa's new crown pneumonia infection rate has exceeded 10%, reaching about 18%, and will continue to rise in the future.
"The current upward trend indicates that the new crown pneumonia epidemic in South Africa will face exponential growth in the future, which means that the peak of the second wave of epidemics is likely to be higher than the peak of the first wave."
(Edit Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]