The health department announces there are now 7,220 confirmed cases across SA, an increase of 357 in the past 24 hours
Health workers fill out documents before performing tests for Covid-19 at the screening and testing tents set up at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg. Picture: MICHELE SPATARI / AFP
The number of South Africans to die of Covid-19 has climbed to 148, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Ten deaths were reported in the past 24 hours — seven of them in the Western Cape and one each in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. There were also now 7,572 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in SA — an increase of 357 in the past 24 hours.268,064 tests have now been done countrywide.
On Monday, the department announced there were 7,220 confirmed cases across SA, with the death toll at 138.reported 2,746 recoveries on Monday, with this figure not updated in Tuesday night's release.There have been an additional six cases of inmates at the East London prison testing positive, for a national total of 165 within the correctional services sector.
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