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By IOL Reporter 
9h ago
JOHANNESBURG – Over the past 24 hours, 2,364 new cases of Covid-19 have been identified, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases detected to 690,896, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday.
Since Friday, another 126 deaths related to Covid-19 have been reported.
These include 39 from the Eastern Cape, 35 from the Free State, 10 from KwaZulu Natal, 30 from Gauteng, 4 from Mpumalanga, and 8 from the Western Cape.
The latest deaths bring the total number of Covid-19-related deaths to 17,673.
The total number of recoveries is now 622,153, which translates into a recovery rate of 90 percent.
The provinces continue to refine their processes for identifying Covid-19-related deaths as outlined by the national Health Department on Wednesday.
Tests
The cumulative number of tests performed to date is 4,388,171 with 28,066 new tests performed since the last report.
On the international front, new Covid-19 cases in the United States hit a two-month high on Friday with more than 58,000 new coronavirus infections reported, according to a Reuters analysis.
Ten of the 50 states reported record one-day increases in cases on Friday. Two other states recorded more than 3,000 new cases for the second day in a row, a two-day trend not seen even during the peak of the previous outbreak in the spring, according to Reuters data.
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