Around 54,000 people die in South Africa every year from non-natural causes. On an annualised basis, confirmed Covid-19 deaths have breached that level.
An estimated 220,000 people may have died from Covid-19 in South Africa, statistics suggest, but as of Tuesday the official death toll – from confirmed coronavirus infections that ended in death – is 77,440. That now makes Covid-19 both a bigger killer than South Africa’s two most deadly diseases, and more deadly than every non-natural cause of death combined. It is now nearly 17 months since the first Covid-19 death was recorded in South Africa.
