Figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Wednesday showed 2,093 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA in the previous 24 hours.
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to 3,973,086.The national health department reported another 27 deaths, eight of which occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative Covid-19 deaths are 101,424 to date.
The NICD said the new cases are from Gauteng , the Western Cape , KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape , the Free State , Mpumalanga , Northern Cape and North West , and Limpopo . There were 85 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, bringing to 2,285 the number of people in hospitals with Covid-19.READ MORE:
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