South Africa registered 9,149 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total to 1,722,086. A further 100 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, taking total deaths to 57,410.
U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to join other Group of Seven leaders in a campaign to end the Covid-19 pandemic by distributing at least 1 billion extra shots to poorer nations by late next year. He announced the U.S. will begin shipping a half-billion doses of Pfizer Inc. vaccines to countries in “dire need” in August.