South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed only 726 new Covid-19 cases on Monday.
This brings the number of coronavirus cases to 3,968,931 in the country since the advent of the disease in March 2020, the agency said.
The institute said that Gauteng (274), Western Cape (166), and KwaZulu-Natal (95) provinces continued to lead with the number of new infections.
It noted that due to an ongoing audit exercise by the Ministry of Health, there may be a backlog of Covid-19 mortality cases reported.
“Today the ministry reports 33 deaths, however, and out of these, five have occurred in the past 48 hours – bringing total fatalities to 101,350 to date,” the NICD said.
Meanwhile, at least 33,068 Covid-19 vaccines were administered on Monday, and the total number of jabs now stood at some 36,277,964, the agency added.
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