SA recorded 2,197 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours as the “sustained downward trend” in new infections continued, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Tuesday.
The new infections came at a positivity rate of 6.1%, which is also significantly down from the peaks of the third wave.
The NICD said that there were 160 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past day. This means that there have been 2,886,331 confirmed cases and 86,376 fatalities to date across SA.KwaZulu-Natal , followed by the Western Cape , the Eastern Cape , the Free State and Gauteng . No other provinces recorded more than 200 cases in the past day.175 new hospital admissions, meaning that there are now 8,150 people in SA's hospitals for Covid-19 treatment.
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