An additional 1,674 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in SA in the last 24 hours.
In a statement on Monday afternoon, the health ministry said that there were now 34,357 cases of the respiratory illness.
There were also an additional 22 deaths recorded in the last 24-hour cycle - all of them in the Western Cape. This means that there are now 705 fatalities from Covid-19 in SA - of them, 525 have been recorded in the Western Cape. The figures are based on a total of 725,125 of which 23,242 were conducted in the latest reporting cycle.
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