Categories: South Africa

Covid-19 Update: SA records 4,667 new cases, and 166 deaths

On Wednesday South Africa reported 4,667 new cases of Covid-19 in a 24 hour cycle.

This was communicated by the National insitute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division responsible for the surveillance of Covid-19 in the country.

This brings the cumulative number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,869,201, representing a 9.6% positivity rate.

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“As per the National Department of Health, a further 166 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 85,468 to date,” reads a statement from the institute.

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It said a total of 17,191,349 tests had been conducted in both the public and private sectors.

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“The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (25%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (23%). Eastern Cape accounted for 15%; Free State accounted for 11%; Gauteng Province accounted for 9%; Northern Cape accounted for 7%; North West accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga accounted for 4%; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s new cases.”

During the cycle a further 270 people were hospitalised.

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