Mkhize also reported on Tuesday that 219 new deaths related to Covid-19 had been recorded in the past 24 hours. Of these, 56 were in Gauteng, 43 in KwaZulu-Natal, 38 in the Western Cape, 29 in Limpopo, 20 in the Eastern Cape, 14 in the Northern Cape, 10 in Mpumalanga and nine in the Free State.
This means 48,313 deaths related to Covid-19 have been reported since the outbreak of the respiratory illness nearly a year ago.
To date, 1,396,951 recoveries have been recorded at a recovery rate of 93.5%.
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