Cape Town - Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Saturday announced the death of another 7 people from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours and 6336 new confirmed infections.
The seven people who died are from the Western Cape and the Free State.
"We have looked at the data for patients who have been hospitalised and found that, consistent with evidence emerging worldwide, hypertension, diabetes and cardiac disease are the
three most common co-morbidities associated with serious illness from Covid-19," Mkhize said in a statement.
He added that other co-morbidities that were seen amongst Covid-19 admitted patients were chronic
pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic renal disease, malignancy, HIV, active and past tuberculosis.
"I would therefore like to urge our millions of South Africans who are over 63 years of age and
those who live with these conditions to take extra precaution as we ease the lockdown."
DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF COVID-19 FATALITIES:
Eastern Cape: 13
Free State: 6
Gauteng: 12
KwaZulu-Natal: 34
Limpopo: 2
Western Cape: 56
The department has also begun to study the deaths to begin to elucidate patterns and areas of high
risk and have observed: Males account for 71 (58%) an females 52 (42%).
The median age of patients who died was 64.
COVID-19 DEATHS BY AGE:
20-29: 1 (0.8%)
30-39: 6 (4.9%)
40-49: 19 (15.5%)
50-59: 23 (18.7%)
60-69: 30 (24.4%)
70-79: 28 (22.7%)
80-89: 14 (11.4%)
90-99: 2 ( 1.6%)
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