Ten more Covid-19 patients have lost their lives to the deadly disease, ballooning the death toll from 138 to 148.
This was announced by Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday night.
Mkhize said of the ten deaths, which were reported in the last 24 hours, seven of them were in the Western Cape, and on each in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
He also said the infection number has also increased from 7 220 to 7 572, an increase of 352 from Monday
The new cases were from 10,523 tests in the last 24 hours and 268,064 tests have now been conducted country wide.
Below is the provincial breakdown of Covid-19 infections:
Western Cape-3 609
Gauteng-1 697
KZN-1 142
Eastern Cape-838
Free State- 128
Mpumalanga -57
Limpopo-40
North West -35
Northern Cape-16
The number of deaths and recoveries were recorded as follows:
Western Cape- 71 deaths, 833 recoveries
KwaZulu-Natal-36 deaths,415 recoveries
Eastern Cape-18 deaths, 341 recoveries
Gauteng-15 deaths,979 recoveries
Free State- 6 deaths, 96 recoveries
Limpopo-2 deaths,27 recoveries
Mpumalanga -0 deaths, 22 recoveries
North West 0 deaths, 20 recoveries
Northern Cape-0 deaths, 13 recoveries.
