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By IOL Reporter 
8h ago
Cape Town – South Africa has recorded 1,816 new Covid-19 cases and 49 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The latest figures bring the total number of cases in the country to 648,214.
PROVINCIAL SNAPSHOT
Gauteng remains the province most affected by the pandemic with 21,4,831 cases in total. Of these, 20 640 are active cases. This represents 33.1% of all cases in the country.
With 116,167 confirmed cases, KwaZulu-Natal has registered 17.9% of total Covid-19 cases nationwide, of which 7,420 are active cases.
The Northern Cape, with 13 123 confirmed infections, remains the province with the lowest case burden. Of these, 3,459 are active cases.
DEATHS AND RECOVERIES
To date, 15,427 people have died as a result of the coronavirus. The latest deaths include 13 from the Western Cape, 12 from Gauteng, 11 from KwaZulu-Natal, 8 from the Eastern Cape and 5 from the Free State.
The recovery rate remains encouraging with 576,423 patients, or 89.9%, who have successfully overcome the coronavirus that has infected nearly 29 million people worldwide since it was first identified in December of the year. past.
TESTS
The total number of tests carried out since March is 3,902,786, with 18,620 new tests having been carried out in the last 24 hours.
As South Africans prepare for possible loosening of lockdown restrictions, Professor Salim Abdool Karim warned that while we are “in a good place” in our efforts to combat the pandemic, the danger of a second wave remains.
Karim heads the inter-ministerial advisory committee that assists the government in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
He cautioned that this is not the time to go back to taking prescribed precautions against the virus and advised people to get used to the idea that wearing masks will be a necessity for some time to come.
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