Thread by @sugan2503

PROVINCIAL UPDATE 24 MAY

• Changes from yesterday highlighted
• New table today on % of deaths from confirmed cases per age category
• Active cases graph

#Covid19 #Covid19SA

[1/2] Table on % of deaths per age category:

In this table I looked at what % of people have died from those that tested positive in each age category.

Approximately:
• 1 in 6 people over 80 have died
• 1 in 8 between 70 - 79 have died
• 1 in 16 between 60 - 69 have died

[2/2] Table on % of deaths per age category:

Getting data for this table has been difficult. As much as I would like to have more up to date numbers, these numbers are only released once a week at best.
I used what was available to try and give people an idea of the % of deaths

Active cases graph:

With recovery updates coming in I decided to look at the active cases

• KZN & GP growth of active cases has been quite gradual over the last month
• NW, FS & LP has seen a steady rise but all still under 100
• EC, thankfully, not growing as fast as WC

For those who may not have noticed, I changed my twitter handle from sugan250388 to sugan2503. I was told fewer numbers are better for a twitter handle 😅
I couldn't think of anything else so I just chopped off two digits 😂