South Africa
#CoronavirusSA: 257 healthcare workers have died─── 06:24 Wed, 16 Sep 2020
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize
Out of the more than 15,000 Covid-19 fatalities in SA to date, at least 257 have been healthcare workers.
Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday evening that a total of 15,641 patients had succumbed to the virus.
The cumulative number of infections is now 651,521 while there have been 583,126 recoveries.
The recovery rate stands at 89.5%.
Mkhize shared a provincial breakdown of the number of healthcare workers who had contracted the virus and succumbed to it as of September 11.
He said 257 of them died in hospital.
