Over 285 Covid-19 deaths, 9 700 new cases recorded on Sunday

South Africa records 9 718 new Covid-19 cases and 287 deaths on Sunday, ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national address.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said the new cases represented a 26.6% positivity rate.Gauteng accounted for a majority of the new cases, followed by the Western Cape, the NICD said.

“KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 14%; Limpopo and Mpumalanga each accounted for 8%; the Eastern Cape and North West each accounted for 6%; the Free State accounted for 3%; and the Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases.”

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