New infections bring the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in SA to 3,844,625.
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng, with 1,678 , followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 662 . The Western Cape accounted for 368 ; while the Eastern Cape with 163 and Free State with 153 each accounted for 5%. Mpumalanga , North West and Northern Cape each accounted for 2% respectively; and Limpopo with 17 accounted for 1% of Monday’s new cases.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported 10 new deaths with four occurring in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,533 to date with 24,693,273 tests conducted in both public and private sectors. The proportion of the positive new cases has increase by 18.7%, which is lower than Sunday's which saw an increase of 25.3%.
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