Nearly 10,000 new Covid-19 cases have been registered in South Africa on Thursday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Friday.
The 9,757 coronavirus cases brought the total number to 3,818,125 confirmed cases, the NICD said.
This massive increase from 6,175 on Wednesday represented a 25.9 percent positivity rate, the agency said.
Gauteng province accounted for the majority of the new cases at 44 percent, with KwaZulu-Natal following at 24 percent, it added.
The two regions were followed by Western Cape which accounted for 13 percent; Eastern Cape (six percent); Free State (five percent); Mpumalanga (three percent); North West (two percent); and Limpopo and Northern Cape which both got one percent of the new cases, the NICD said.
Meanwhile, the ministry of health said hospital admissions also increased to 135 Covid-19 patients on Thursday.
Some 64 patients died, with seven of them passing in the same period – thereby bringing total fatalities to 100,471 to date.
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