The new infections — at a positivity rate of 16.5%, in keeping with 53,732 exams in the identical duration — system that there contain now been 1,712,939 cases recorded across SA since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
The majority of new cases had been recorded in Gauteng (58% — or 5,111 new cases), adopted by the Western Cape (9% — or 783 cases).
“The increased determination of exams and cases, and increased positivity, are all proof of the anticipated third surge in Covid-19 cases, and no longer artefacts of information loading or increased laboratory turnaround times,” the NICD acknowledged.
The institute moreover reported that there had been 1,150 neatly being facility admissions in the previous 24 hours. Again, it was as soon as Gauteng that bore the brunt, with 587 new admissions.
“There had been 135 additional in-neatly being facility deaths reported in the previous 24 hours,” the NICD acknowledged.
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SA records 8,800 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, with 5,100 in Gauteng
