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By IOL Reporter 
19h ago
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced on Saturday 40 more deaths related to Covid-19 and 1,731 new infections.
South Africa’s Covid-19 cases now number 735,906.
The latest deaths bring the death toll from the coronavirus to 19,789.
Deaths and recoveries
Of the 40 new Covid-19-related deaths reported, 21 are from the Eastern Cape, 2 from Gauteng, 7 from the Free State, 6 from KwaZulu-Natal and 4 from the Western Cape.
Eleven of these deaths were reported to have occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours, including 4 in the Free State, 1 in Gauteng, 2 in KwaZulu-Natal, 1 in the Eastern Cape, and 3 in the Western Cape.
To date, a total of 678,738 have recovered from Covid-19, which translates to a 92 percent recovery rate.
Case data
According to the daily report of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Gauteng still has the highest number of cases with 229,872 cases, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 123,517 and then the Western Cape with 118,549 cases.
Data test
The cumulative number of tests performed to date is 4,963,174 with 22,455 new tests performed since the last report.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation next week after the National Coronavirus Command Council meets to provide an update on the country’s risk-adjusted strategy to combat the coronavirus.
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