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Mkhize: No need for Covid-19 stats according to race – until now

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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Picture: GCIS
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Picture: GCIS

South Africa’s Covid-19 coronavirus statistics have not been classified according to race – up until now, but discussions to do so will be conducted.

So said Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, who was speaking during a World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa media briefing on Covid-19 in the region.

On Wednesday, EFF MP Naledi Chirwa first posed the question during the National Assembly’s first sitting since lockdown, wanting to know “how many black people have been infected and how many have died” and “how many white people have been infected and how many have died”.

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