TimesLive reports that according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), 4,227 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA on Tuesday.

This was significantly higher than the 1,662 cases recorded on Monday. The NICD said the new cases represented a 15.7% positivity rate and brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,935,761. The NICD said the national health department had reported another 50 deaths, 14 of which had occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. This brought the total fatalities to 101,002 to date. The NICD said the new cases were mainly from Gauteng (31%), followed by the Western Cape (22%), KwaZulu-Natal (16%), Eastern Cape (11%), Free State (6%), Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and North West (4% each) and Limpopo (1%). There were 139 new hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, bringing to 3,246 the number of people presently admitted to hospitals with Covid-19.

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