300 more Covid hospitalisations in 24hrs
At least 300 more people were admitted to hospital for Covid-19 in the 24 hours leading up to Tuesday night.
This brings the tally of Covid patients to 8857 at 600 hospitals and clinics across the country.
More than 3100 of these Covid patients are at private health facilities, while patients at public facilities are above 5600.
In the same reporting period, more than 8000 new Covid cases were reported.
This increase represents a 20.1% positivity rate.
“The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (28%) followed by Western Cape (22%). Gauteng accounted for 19%; Eastern Cape accounted for 13%; Free State accounted for 5%; Limpopo accounted for 4%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 3% respectively, and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases,” says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).
The cumulative cases since March 2020 sit at 3 483 590.
Close to 140 fatalities were also reported, bringing the tally to 91 451.
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