Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced on Wednesday that there were now 596,060 confirmed infections across the nation. Over half of these cases were in Gauteng (202,011), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (107,271) and the Western Cape (103,210).
There were 159 deaths in the past 24 hours, said Mkhize, taking the death toll to 12,423 to date.
Of the new deaths, 37 were in the Eastern Cape, 43 in Gauteng, 45 in KwaZulu-Natal, 5 in the Free State and 29 in the Western Cape.
The minister also announced that there were 491,441 recoveries – a recovery rate of 82%.
The figures are based upon 3,455,671 overall tests, of which 25,324 remained in the last 24- hour cycle.
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