SA records 8 000 new Covid-19 infections
South Africa has recorded 8,351 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Friday evening.
The latest increase represents a 22.5% positivity rate.
At the same time the Department of Health reported a 114 deaths, although of these only three occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.
"The North West reported 92 retrospective deaths today (Friday) due to data cleaning and the Free State reported 11 retrospective deaths," the NICD said in a statement. "Some of the retrospective deaths only merged with the cumulative case line list recently, due to incorrect names and surnames that were captured on the DATCOV system."
Gauteng continues to be the epicentre of the outbreak, with 40% of the new cases recorded in the country's most populous province. KwaZulu-Natal recorded 19% of the new cases and the Western Cape 18%.
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