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By IOL Reporter 
4h ago
Cape Town – Confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa now stand at 702,131, with 18,408 deaths reported since the coronavirus hit the country in March, the Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday.
During the last 24 hours, 1,928 new cases have been identified.
Globally, Covid-19 cases reached a record 400,000 reported cases in a single day on Friday, as most European countries experience a second wave of infections.
Provincial overview
With 224,863 cases, Gauteng represents 32 percent of the national total, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 121,174 cases or 17.3 percent.
The Western Cape has the third highest number of cases at 11,481 or 16.3 percent.
Gauteng and the Western Cape have recorded the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 with 4,618 and 4,280 respectively.
Data test
“The cumulative number of tests performed to date is 4,528,141 with 22,608 new tests performed since the last report,” the ministry said Saturday.
Deaths and recoveries
Of the 38 Covid-19-related deaths reported in the past 24 hours, 10 were from the Eastern Cape, 10 from the Free State, 17 from Gauteng and 1 from Mpumalanga.
As of Saturday, 630,436 people have recovered from Covid-19, keeping the recovery rate at a constant 90 percent.
epidemiology
Last week, the Free State reported the highest number of new cases (2 139/9 634, 22.2%), followed by Gauteng (1895/9 634, 19.7%) and the Western Cape (1402/9 634, 14.6%), according to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
As of October 10, 2020, a total of 692,471 laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19 had been detected in South Africa, including 17,780 deaths (fatality rate 2.6%). Of these, 9,634 were cases detected in that week, representing a 7.2% decrease in the number of new cases compared to the previous week (10,377), the NICD said.
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