Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, confirmed that 9418 cumulative cases have been recorded since the first in the province. This means that 742 new cases have been recorded in the past 24 hours in the province, after 806 was previously recorded.

So far no new deaths have been reported but residents were warned of a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections.

The province has 7,667 active cases after 1,715 patients recovered from the virus, and 36 deaths were recorded from 9,418 reported cases.

The province has been battling with the increasing infection rate in mining areas after miners from three hotspot provinces - the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng - earlier returned to work.

The province has once again reiterated that its Covid-19 positive cases are largely located within the mining communities with “Bojanala standing at over 4000, Dr Kenneth Kaunda over 1000, Ngaka Modiri Molema over 400, and Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati at over 100.

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