According to the latest update, 4 172 deaths have been recorded in the country.

There have been 138 241 recoveries. So far, more than 2.19 million tests have been conducted, with 40 233 new tests.

The Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, announced on Monday that the department had identified hotspots of hunger, saying "we are looking the Covid-19 storm in the eye, but there's another storm of hunger".

Zulu said the areas are in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga.

She said this during a media briefing on Monday, following President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to the nation on Sunday evening.

"We need to respond as quickly as we possibly can, we need to be agile. The storm is here and there isn't time," she said.

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