SA recorded 26,976 new Covid-19 cases and 54 deaths in the past 24 hours.
SA recorded 26,976 new Covid-19 cases and 54 deaths in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Wednesday.As SA recorded 26,976 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases offered some good news.
On Wednesday, the NICD said the positivity rate, the number of positive cases against the number of tests, was 32.2%. Most of the new cases were recorded in Gauteng , followed by KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape . The Northern Cape recorded the least with 604 new cases. The NICD reported 54 more Covid-19-related deaths. This means 3,231,031 infections and 90,226 fatalities have been confirmed to date.
Figures showed there were 620 new hospital admissions, with a total of 7,339 people being treated in SA's hospitals for Covid-19-related complications.
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