The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 3 085 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 608 307.
This increase represents an 8.8% positivity rate.
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (32%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal and Western Cape.
The NICD says due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported.
A further COVID-19 related have been reported 195 deaths and of these, 23 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 95 288 to date.
A total of 22 303 586 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.
Below are the latest coronavirus stats:
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