A further 413 Covid-19 related deaths were reported over the past 24-hour cycle.
Healthcare workers assist patients being treated at a makeshift hospital run by charity organisation The Gift of the Givers, during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Johannesburg, July 10 2021. File photo.Picture taken July 10, 2021.The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported an additional 15,939 new Covid-19 cases in SA on Friday.
“The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng , followed by Western Cape . Limpopo accounted for 12%; Mpumalanga accounted for 9%; North West accounted for 8%; Eastern Cape accounted for 5%; KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 4%; Free State accounted for 3%; and the Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases,” the NICD said in a statement.
Abdool Karim, former chair of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, said the third wave was more than twice the peak of the first and second waves in the country.
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