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Toggle Second wave: December 2020 – April 2021 subsection. 2.1 December 2020. 2.2 January 2021. ... COVID-19 cases in South Africa (Click for all data) ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa was part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ().. On 5 March 2020, Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize had confirmed the spread of the virus to South Africa, with the first known patient being a male citizen who tested positive upon his return from Italy. [4]
The African Union secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa; it was announced on 13 January 2021. This is independent of the global Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator ( COVAX ) effort aimed at distributing COVID-19 vaccines to lower-income countries. [ 11 ]
The COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill aims at empowering the economy, save enterprises and jobs, and build for a recovery overtime. The objectives of the Quarantine Bill are to prevent the resurgence of COVID-19 infection, and step up the preparedness and response of the country to any future pandemic.
In the 18 months following containment of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, two COVID-19 deaths were recorded. [512] [513] In December 2022, the Chinese government ended its zero-COVID policy and mass testing following protests across the country. [495] In 2020 and 2021, China was the largest exporter of COVID-19 critical medical products.
Brazil has reached 400,000 COVID-19 deaths. [168] Fiji has confirmed five cases of COVID-19, four locally transmitted cases and one border quarantine case. [169] India has reported a record high of 379,257 new cases, bringing the total number to over 18 million COVID-19 cases. 3,645 new deaths were are reported. [170]
The US delivers Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to South Africa as part of the COVAX initiative in 2021 South Africa has so far paid R283 million ($20 million) to the organization in December 2020. COVAX has delivered 1.4 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine to the country on 28 June 2021.
18 January 2021 Nombulelo Hermans: F 51 Member of the National Assembly of South Africa [36] 21 January 2021 Jackson Mthembu: M 62 Minister in the Presidency of South Africa's government, and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng, Johannesburg [37] 22 January 2021: Marius van Heerden: M 46 Former SA 800 metres record ...