The Covid-19 positivity rate jumped to 25.3% on Wednesday with 10,017 new infections recorded.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported 50 deaths with at least 10 of these occurring in the past 24-48 hours. The cumulative Covid-19 deaths are 100,609 to date.
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng at 3,946 or 39%, followed by KwaZulu-Natal, at 2,092 . The Western Cape accounted for 1,749 cases at 17%; the Eastern Cape, 645 and Free State, 600, each accounting for 6%. Mpumalanga with 323 cases and North West with 326 each accounted for 3%; the Northern Cape accounted for 323 cases at 2%; and Limpopo accounted for 104 cases, at 1% of the new cases.
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