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South Africa recorded its three deadliest Covid-19 days on consecutive days this week as the number of confirmed deaths rose to 35,852 on Thursday.
On Thursday, Health Minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize announced that 712 Covid-19-related deaths had been recorded in the past 24 hours. This comes after 806 deaths were announced on Wednesday and 755 deaths on Tuesday. This means that 2,273 people had been confirmed to have died from Covid-19-related illnesses in just three days.
Since the beginning of the year, the number of recorded deaths has risen from 28,887 on January 1 to Thursday’s figure of 35,852, an increase of 6,965 deaths. The country has recorded more than 500 deaths in a 24-hour period six times since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, five of them since January 5.
Mkhize said that of the 712 deaths recorded Thursday, 232 were in KwaZulu-Natal, 162 in the Western Cape, 114 in Gauteng, 97 in the Eastern Cape, 50 in the Northwest, 21 in the Free State. , 15 in the North Cape, 11 in Limpopo and 10 in Mpumalanga.
Also on Thursday, Mkhize announced that 18,503 new Covid-19 infections had been recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the national total of cases to 1,296,806. New infections came from 74,830 tests, with a positivity rate of 24.7%.
Currently, 211,214 of those cases are considered active in SA, with KZN (67,583 cases) Gauteng (49,162 cases) and Western Cape (40,933 cases) representing 74.5% of them.
Mkhize also reported that 1,049,740 recoveries had been recorded, representing a recovery rate of 80.9%.
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