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JOHANNESBURG – At least 20 people have died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape have reported four deaths each, while six deaths have been reported in Gauteng and the Western Cape.
This brings the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in the country to 15,447.
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa now stands at 649,793 after 1,579 new cases were reported in the last hour.
While the number of recoveries is 577,906, which translates to a recovery rate of 88.9 percent.
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