KIU, Main Campus - South Africa has surpassed the 300,000 COVID-19 cases mark after recording 12,757 cases on July 15, bringing the total number to 311,049, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize confirmed.

Dr Mkhize said that the country had recorded an additional 107 fatalities, bringing the total number of fatalities to 4,453.

“As of today, the total number of confirmed cases is 311,049, the total number of deaths is 4453 and the total number of recoveries is 160,693,” Dr Zweli Mkhize said in a tweet.

The country has conducted over 2.2 million tests for the virus since it was first detected about four months ago.

South Africa is the worst-hit country on the African continent and is the eighth most affected country globally according to the World Health Organization (WHO).