Colombia has overtaken South Africa with more cases. As of Sunday evening, a total of 638 517 Covid-19 infections have been recorded in South Africa.

This is an increase of 1 633 new cases in the past 24 hours. A further 110 deaths have been recorded.

Mpumalanga has recorded 34 deaths, 31 from KwaZulu-Natal, 24 from Gauteng, while 7 deaths have been confirmed in the Eastern Cape. The Free State has recorded 9 deaths, with only one death confirmed in the Western Cape in the cycle up to Sunday evening.

The recovery rate continues to remain firmly at 88%.

EWN reports India’s coronavirus infections surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases.

With 4,204,613 infections, India is nearly 70,000 cases ahead of Brazil, which will post its most recent numbers later on Monday.

India, with a daily record 90,802 cases on Monday, also has the fastest-growing caseload. The United States, with more than 6 million cases, remains the worst-affected country.

Deaths in India have been relatively low so far, but it has posted more than 1,000 deaths for each of the last five days.

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