Nearly 250 new Covid-19 cases in SA
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported 245 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours.
This brings the country’s total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 924 317.
The latest increase represents a 0.9% positivity rate.
A further 35 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89 387.
Gauteng accounted for most of the new cases at 35%, followed by Western Cape accounting for 16% and KwaZulu-Natal for 15%.
There has been an increase of 34 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
A total of 3 735 people are currently admitted in both public and private health facilities.
On the vaccine front, 126 231 vaccines were administered on Tuesday.
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