SA experienced a record number of 16,532 deaths in a single week in the last week of December, according to the SA Medical Research Council (MRC).
The record number of deaths comes as SA is in the midst of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of deaths in the second wave so far already exceeding the number of deaths in the first. ..
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