Health institute reports 125 fatalities in 24 hours and 2,640 new infections
SA passed another grim Covid-19 milestone, with the country now having recorded more than 85,000 fatalities linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Monday that there were 125 Covid-19-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities since the outbreak of the pandemic in SA in March 2020 to 85,002. There were also 2,640 new Covid-19 cases recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the total confirmed infections to date to 2,860,835o other province passed the 500 mark for new daily infections, with the Free State recording 258, the Western Cape recording 240 and the Northern Cape recording 229. Gauteng recorded just 150 new infections.
The number of people now in hospital with Covid-19-related illnesses was also close to dropping to fewer than 10,000. This comes after there wereTimesLIVE
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