EC records 105 new deaths from COVID, while Gauteng has 1 more



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The total number of recoveries is 793,914.

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JOHANNESBURG – The total number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in South Africa has risen to 921,922, with 152 new deaths, Health Minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize announced in a statement Sunday.

The total number of recoveries is 793,914.

The Eastern Cape recorded 105 new coronavirus-related deaths, followed by the Western Cape with 30 and KwaZulu-Natal with 8. Gauteng had only one death.

The total number of deaths is now 24,691.

On Friday, Mkhize, along with the scientists, announced that they had identified a much more serious variant of COVID-19 here at home.

“This is one version of the virus that scientists want to tell us what has happened in terms of the findings. This genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequence Platform, has sequenced hundreds of samples from around the world. country since the start of the pandemic in March. They noted that a particular variant has increasingly dominated the findings from samples collected in the past two months. “



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