South Africa recorded 300 new Covid-19 cases and 12 Covid-19-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said in a statement today.
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,921,886. This increase represents a 1.2% positivity rate.
“As per the National Department of Health, a further 12 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89,163 to date,“ said NICD senior communications manager Sinenhlanhla Jimoh in the statement. Jimoh said the majority of new cases today are from Gauteng , followed by Western Cape accounting for 17%.
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 16%; Free State accounted for 14%; Northern Cape accounted for 12%; Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga each accounted for 7% respectively; North West accounted for 5%; and Limpopo accounted for 3% of today’s new cases.The total number of cases today is lower than yesterday and higher than the average number of cases per day over the seven preceding days .
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