Medical staff wait before receiving the Covid-19 vaccine at the vaccination ward at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital on April 08, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Picture: Gallo Images/Beeld/Deaan Vivier
As of Sunday, 31 October, the cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 2,922,116 with 230 new cases identified, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) confirmed.
This represents a 1.2% positivity rate.
14 more Covid-19 related deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 89,177.
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The total number of recoveries stood at 2,814,264 with a recovery rate of 96,3%.
18,544,880 tests in total have been conducted to date in both public and private sectors. The country currently has 18,675 active cases.
A further 11 hospital admissions were reported in the past 24 hours.
The total number of vaccines administered in the country so far stands at 22,381,951.
The majority of new Covid-19 cases are from Mpumalanga (20%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (18%) and Gauteng (16%).
Western Cape accounted for 13%; Free State accounted for 11%, meanwhile Northern Cape and Eastern Cape each accounted for 8% respectively.
North West accounted for 6%; and Limpopo accounted for 0% of Saturday’s new cases.
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