About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/4527eb10248817ce3181ea68cefb5b0552237af85b3f794780c641ce

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/4527eb10248817ce3181ea68cefb5b0552237af85b3f794780c641ce Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	South Africa has recorded a jump of nearly 60 percent in overall numbers of natural deaths in recent weeks, suggesting a much higher toll of coronavirus-related fatalities than officially reported. "In the past weeks, the numbers have shown a relentless increase - by the second week of July, there were 59% more deaths from natural causes than would have been expected based on historical data," the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) said in a report released late Wednesday. The report by the council, which is government-funded but an independent unit, came as the health ministry announced a record increase of 572 coronavirus deaths over the previous 24 hours. The author of the report, Professor Debbie Bradshaw, said "the weekly death reports have revealed a huge discrepancy between the country's confirmed COVID-19 deaths and number of excess natural deaths". South Africa is the worst-affected country in Africa and among the top five in the world in terms of confirmed cases, with 394,948 infections reported to date including 5,940 deaths. The mortality rate has remained low, however, at around 1.5 percent on Wednesday, according to the health ministry's daily updates. The SAMRC is charged with conducting research on disease trends and identifying the main causes of deaths in the country. "The SAMRC has been tracking mortality for decades in South Africa, and this system has identified excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 epidemic," said the council's CEO professor Glenda Gray. "These may be attributed to both COVID-19 deaths as well non-COVID-19 due to other diseases such as TB, HIV and non-communicable diseases, as health services are re-orientated to support this health crisis," she said. sn/wdb
schema:headline	Concern over S.Africa virus toll after rise in natural deaths
schema:mentions	Debbie Dingle Relentless Records Non-communicable disease Tuberculosis Mortality rate Ebola virus disease Africa HIV South Africa Chief executive officer Coronavirus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Glenda Gray John Layfield Manner of death South African Medical Research Council
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-07-23 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	82 (xsd:integer)

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software