Over 10,000 new Covid-19 cases were registered on the 24 hours to Wednesday night in South Africa, the country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) announced on Thursday.
The 10,017 new cases bring the total number of confirmed cases to 3,862,165 – representing a 25.3% positivity rate, the NICD said.
The majority of the new cases came from Gauteng province at 39%, followed by KwaZulu-Natal at 21%, the agency said.
The province of Western Cape accounted for 17% of new cases; Eastern Cape and Free State (6% each), respectively; Mpumalanga and North West (3% each); Northern Cape (2%), and Limpopo (1%), it added.
According to the Ministry of Health, there was an increase of 164 hospital admissions, and 50 deaths were reported in the same period, bringing the total number of deaths to 100,609 to date.
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