TimesLive reports that after showing high numbers of Covid-19 infections in recent weeks, the latest figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday showed there has been a steady decline in the number of infections.

The institute said 1,662 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA in the past 24 hours, representing a 13.7% positivity rate. The national health department reported another 19 deaths, eight of which had occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. This brought the total fatalities to date to 100,952. The NICD said the new cases were from Gauteng (39%), followed by the Western Cape (22%), KwaZulu-Natal (13%), Free State (6%), Mpumalanga and North West (5% each), Eastern Cape and Northern Cape (4% each) and Limpopo (1%). There were 83 new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, bringing to 3,164 the number of people presently in hospital with Covid-19.

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