This brings the country’s total infections to 2 906 422.

The institute says the latest increase represents a 3.4% positivity rate.

An additional 27 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing the total number of fatalities to 87 780.

KwaZulu-Natal is leading with 177 new infections recorded. “The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%), followed by the Western Cape (19%). The Eastern Cape accounted for 16%; Gauteng Province accounted for 12%; the Northern Cape accounted for 11%; Free State accounted for 9%; North West accounted for 7%; Mpumalanga accounted for 3%; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s new cases,” the NICD said in a statement.

There has been an increase of 30 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours with 6 268 people currently admitted for treatment.

Meanwhile, 52 556 Covid-19 vaccines doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

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