Premier Sihle Zikalala said more than 2.4-million people in the province had been screened for Covid-19, resulting in more than 59,000 tests being conducted.
He added that 1,498 people had tested positive and 806 people had recovered.
After the arrival of the Cuban brigade in SA on April 26, health minister Zweli Mkhize said most of the doctors would be deployed in the Covid-19 “hotspot” provinces: the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Mkhize said 29 of the doctors would work in Gauteng, while 28 would be deployed in KwaZulu-Natal and 26 in the Western Cape.
The rest of the group will be deployed as follows:
- Eastern Cape — 20;
- Free State — 17;
- Mpumalanga — 14;
- Limpopo — 13;
- North West — 13; and
- Northern Cape — 11.