South Africa's cases of COVID-19 crossed the 300,000 as its healthcare system struggles under the weight of rapidly rising infections.According to the World Health Organization, there were 108,098 new cases across Africa for the week to July 14 and of those 76% - or more than 82,000 - were reported in South Africa.

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