Mkhize confirmed 9,445 new coronavirus infections in SA, bringing the cumulative number to 921,922.
Recoveries now stand at 793,914.
Meanwhile, more than 8,700 people with confirmed Covid-19 infections were being treated on Sunday in a sample of public and private hospitals in SA monitored by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
Of those, 747 patients were in ICU and 293 on ventilation.
The data is collected using clinical information from admitted patients at selected hospitals in the nine provinces to identify trends in the admission of patients with Covid-19. Not all hospitals in the country submit data.
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