There were 148 new infections recorded in Gauteng in the past day. The next worst-hit was the Western Cape with 31 cases and KwaZulu-Natal with 27.
Gauteng recorded 54% of the total number of new Covid-19 cases in SA in the past day, the NICD said.Gauteng accounted for more than half of the country's 273 new Covid-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Tuesday.
There were 148 new infections recorded in Gauteng in the past day. The next-worst province was the Western Cape with 31 cases and KwaZulu-Natal with 27. No other province recorded more than 20 new infections. Across SA, the new cases take the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 2,926,348 since the outbreak of the coronavirus in March last year.
The NICD said that, according to health department data, there were 15 Covid-19 related deaths reported in the past day, bringing total fatalities to 89,504 to date.35 new hospital admissions, meaning that there are 3,599 people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 related complications
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