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In a statement, Health Minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize said the new cases meant 1,192,570 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed since the start of the outbreak in March last year. In the same period, 32,425 deaths have been confirmed.
New infections came from 76,202 tests with a positivity rate of 28.8%. In total, 7,043,680 tests have been completed across the country in just over 300 days since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
KwaZulu-Natal remains the epicenter of the virus, with 85,065 active cases. Gauteng (43,643) has overtaken the Western Cape (42,017) to become the second worst affected province in terms of active cases. In total, there are 212,226 active confirmed cases across the country.
Of the recently reported deaths, 215 occurred in the Eastern Cape, 146 in the Western Cape, 75 in Gauteng, 72 in KwaZulu-Natal, 55 in the Northwest, 27 in the Free State, 11 in Limpopo and Mpumalanga and four in the Cape. North.
So far, 947,919 recoveries have been recorded at a 79.5% recovery rate.
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