As of Friday there were 6,892 people admitted to public and private hospitals in SA with Covid-19.
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases said in an update that 3,520 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA, pushing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,576,379. This increase represents a 10% positivity rate."Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the national department of health, there may be a backlog of Covid-19 mortality cases reported. Today, the department reports 103 deaths and of these, 10 occurred in the past 24-48 hours.
The majority of new cases were from Gauteng , followed by Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal . Limpopo accounted for 11%, Eastern Cape, Free State, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 6% and the Northern Cape accounted for 5% of new cases.
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