SA recorded 10,496 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, with the number of infections countrywide surging towards the 300,000 mark.
Figures announced by health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday night reveal Gauteng recorded 3,357 new cases and continued to be the virus epicentre in SA. KZN also recorded more than 3,000 new cases.Mkhize also revealed that 174 new deaths had been recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the national total to 4,346.
The Western Cape has the highest number of deaths , followed by the Eastern Cape and Gauteng and KZN .SA's figures come from a total of 2,232,738 tests, of which 38,114 were done in the past 24-hour cycle., by the time Mkhize released the figures, SA is set to become just the ninth country to record more than 300,000 cases of Covid-19.
The UK has recorded 44,830 deaths to date, at a rate of 660 deaths per 1 million people. Comparatively, SA's 4,346 deaths is at a rate of about 70 per million.
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