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There were 104 more Covid-19-related deaths over 24 hours: 65 in the Eastern Cape, three in the Free State, seven in Gauteng, six in KwaZulu-Natal, three in Mpumalanga, and 20 in the Western Cape. This brings the total number of deaths to 22,067.
A total of 5,565,928 tests have been completed, of which 31,844 have been performed since the last report.
Recoveries stand at 744,298 and there are 44,084 active cases in SA.
The Western Cape has the highest number of active cases with 14,217, followed by the Eastern Cape with 8,536, KwaZulu-Natal 8,501, Free State 5,579 and Gauteng with 3,127.
The latest figures come as a doctor in KwaZulu-Natal urged teens who attended matrix rage parties to self-quarantine after an influx of Covid-19 test requests in the province.
Dr Kamz Govender, who works in the Upper Highway area west of Durban, said that the number of requests for Covid-19 tests in the past 48 hours had been overwhelming.
Govender wrote on Facebook: “This is in large part because they attended the annual matric rage event over the last week and had several friends who tested positive for Covid-19.”
He and his team had noticed that 95% of teens who tested positive for Covid-19, but almost all were asymptomatic.
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