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By IOL Reporter 
8h ago
South Africa has recorded 2,505 new Covid-19 cases and 47 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the national Health Department confirmed on Sunday.
Altogether, the country now has 625 056 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
Gauteng remains the province with the highest number of cases, with KwaZulu-Natal in second place and the Western Cape, which for almost three months was the epicenter of the pandemic, in third place.
The Northern Cape, with 10,568 cases, has the lowest cumulative number of infections.
Deceased
The latest deaths – 3 from KwaZulu-Natal, 16 from Gauteng, 7 from the Eastern Cape, 7 from the Western Cape, 3 from Free State and 11 from Mpumalanga – bring the death toll since the start of the outbreak to 14,028.
Globally, coronavirus cases have crossed the 25 million mark, with the United States surpassing 6 million cases on Sunday.
Recoveries
While South Africa has been the worst affected African country, the rate of recovery has been encouraging. The country has registered 538,604 recoveries, which is equivalent to a recovery rate of 86%.
Tests
The total number of tests carried out throughout the country currently stands at 3,674,872, and in the last 24 hours, 21,902 new tests have been carried out.
According to daily data released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, testing in the private sector remains much higher than in state institutions, despite massive community screening and testing initiatives that the government has been running.
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