NATIONAL NEWS - South Africa has identified 726 new Covid-19 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, has announced.
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3.968,931. This increase represents a 7.2% positivity rate.
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (38%) followed by Western Cape (23%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 13%; Mpumalanga and Free State accounted for 7% each respectively. North West accounted for 6%; Northern Cape and Eastern Cape accounted for 3% each respectively; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s cases.
The country has also recorded 33 deaths, and of these, 5 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,350 to date.
“Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of Covid-19 mortality cases reported,” said NICD.
There has been an increase of 53 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
25.376,754 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.
