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These latest deaths, confirmed overnight, bring the country’s death toll to 24,011.
JOHANNESBURG – One hundred and eighty-four more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus.
These latest confirmed deaths overnight bring the death toll in the country to 24,011.
The Health Department said it also detected 9,126 new infections in the past 24 hours.
# COVID-19 Statistics in SA as of December 17.
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Dr. Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) December 17, 2020
To date, the total number of confirmed # COVID-19 cases is 892 813, the total number of deaths is 24,011 and the total number of recoveries is 780,313. pic.twitter.com/4DUNhSWkEd
Dr. Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) December 17, 2020
They have increased the number of known cases since the outbreak began to just under 893,000.
Gauteng still accounts for the majority of these infections, followed by the Western Cape and then the Eastern Cape.
So far, more than 780,000 people have been recovered.
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