South Africa COVID-19 cases surpass half a million, says health ministry

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, the health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million.

Africa’s most industrialised nation recorded 10,107 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, pushing the total to 503,290, the health ministry said, four months since the first case was confirmed in the country.

(Reporting by Nqobile Dludla; Editing by Daniel Wallis)