Johannesburg – A total of 7 657 new Covid-19 cases were reported on Sunday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service said.
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 747 082.
“The majority of new cases are from the Gauteng province (64%), followed by the Western Cape (9%) and North West (7%) provinces,” it said.
Gauteng recorded 4 891 new cases, while 663 cases were reported in Western Cape, 521 in North West, 379 in Free State, KwaZulu-Natal recorded 338 cases, Mpumalanga 283, 256 in Northern Cape, 171 in Limpopo, and 155 in Eastern Cape.
A total of 59 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
“An increase of 632 hospital admissions and 78 in-hospital deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.”
South Africa’s acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has said that harsher restrictions could be enforced this coming week to help stem the rise of Covid-19 infections in the country.
Ngubane told SABC news on Sunday, “We are not yet at a place where we have reached herd immunity and the increasing numbers remain a concern and the basic things that we need to do to contain the virus remain critical.”
“The wearing of masks and sanitising of masks are still very important. If South Africans continue to behave recklessly, numbers will go up. We are expecting to make other pronouncements on restrictions to the national coronavirus council this week,” she further said.
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