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JOHANNESBURG – More than 70 percent of South Africa’s active COVID-19 cases are in just three provinces: Gauteng, Free State, and KwaZulu-Natal.
The health department says there are 60,901 active cases.
Other 101 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.
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Ten patients died in the Western Cape, 11 in the Eastern Cape, 16 in Gauteng, 19 in the Free State, and 45 in KwaZulu-Natal.
The total death toll is now approaching 14,800.
The recovery rate is still 88 percent, which means that nine out of ten people positive for COVID-19 have recovered.
The number of tests performed to date is 3,783,823 with 18,123 new tests performed since the last report.
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