The pandemic Coronavirus case in South Africa has started showing a great concern as the number of positive cases keeps increasing and more death rates on records.

The South Africa Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has further announced that the tested and confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country have risen to 2605, as against 2506 recorded on Wednesday 15 April before an increase of 99 positive added to the list to make it 2605.

Zweli in addition to his announcement added that the death toll has risen to 48 as against the total death of 34recorded on Wednesday 15 April, and that is the highest number of death case par day recorded since the beginning of the epidemic outbreak. The city of Limpopo has also recorded its first death.

The provinces of South Africa that have been infected with the COVID-19 cases according to the Health Minister are Gauteng with 969, Western Cape 675, while KwaZulu-Natal has 539. Also, Free State with 98, Eastern Cape with 220, and Limpopo 26. Others are Mpumalanga 22, North West 24, Northern Cape 16 and Unallocated 16. Also, the COVID-19 death cases have a toll in each province as Gauteng had 6 deaths, Western Cape with 13 deaths, KwaZulu-Natal 20 deaths, while Eastern Cape had only 4 deaths. The province of Limpopo with only 1 death and Free State 4 deaths.

The Health Minister Mkhize Zweli in reality with the current status of the COVID-19 cases has made it known to the general public that the country may go the way of compulsory face mask usage. He added that face masks will be recommended in addition to hand-washing and social distancing in the fight against COVID-19. The minister stated “The face mask should never be promoted as our primary prevention strategy and should never be promoted separately from hand-washing and social distancing,” 

He then noted that “To ensure that N95 masks and surgical masks are secured for workers who need them, we would like to recommend that the cloth face mask should be used by the general population.”