Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said that there were 603,338 total cases by Friday night, an increase of 3,398 from the day before.
Gauteng remains the worst-hit province, with 203,832 confirmed infections — followed by KwaZulu-Natal , the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape .Mkhize on Friday night said SA's Covid-19 related deaths had increased to 12,843 — an increase of 225 in the past 24 hours. Of the new cases,
57 were in the Eastern Cape, 46 in Gauteng, 81 in KwaZulu-Natal, six in the Northern Cape, 10 in the North West and 25 in the Western Cape.The figures are based on 3,504,507 total tests, of which 24,224 were done in the most recent 24-hour cycle.
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