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For Jolene Marriah-Maharaj 
8h ago
Durban – South Africa’s Covid-19 recovery rate now stands at 93 percent with 151 more deaths recorded in the past 24 hours.
According to daily statistics published by the Health Department, 31,149 new tests were carried out in the last 24 hours and 2,382 new infections have been registered.
The accumulated cases of Covid-19 in the country to date are 1,490,063.
The total number of tests carried out to date is almost 8,672,596.
Gauteng has recorded the highest number of positive cases, closely followed by KwaZulu Natal. Both provinces have more than 300,000 positive cases.
The North Cape has the lowest number of Covid-19 cases in the country, 33,049.
To date, 47,821 people have died from complications related to Covid-19.
Of the 151 new deaths reported on Saturday, 52 were from the Western Cape, 39 from KwaZulu-Natal, 29 from Gauteng, 15 from the Free State, 12 from Mpumalanga, 3 from the Eastern Cape and one from the Northern Cape.
Meanwhile, the country awaits the arrival of 80,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine after the one million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived in South Africa earlier this month were found to be less effective in fighting the new variant of the vaccine. virus first identified in the Eastern Cape late last year.
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