This brings the tally of Covid-19 patients to 8 857 at 600 hospitals and clinics across the country.

More than 3 100 of these Covid patients are at private health facilities, while patients at public facilities are above 5 600.

In the same reporting period, more than 8000 new Covid cases were reported.

This increase represents a 20.1% positivity rate.

“The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%) followed by Western Cape (22%). Gauteng accounted for 19%; Eastern Cape accounted for 13%; Free State accounted for 5%; Limpopo accounted for 4%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 3% respectively, and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases,” says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).

The cumulative cases since March 2020 sit at 3 483 590.

Close to 140 fatalities were also reported, bringing the tally to 91 451.

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