Of the new cases, the NICD said, only KZN (128) and the Western Cape (102) recorded more than 100 infections in the past day. Gauteng recorded the next-highest, with 99.
There were also 58 new hospital admissions, meaning that 5,252 people are being treated in the country's hospitals for Covid-19 related complications.
According to the latest vaccine statistics, there were 205,681 jabs administered by 5pm on Tuesday. In total, there have been 19,461,202 vaccines administered.
There are also more than 10.2-million people who have been fully vaccinated in SA, either with the single-dose J&J vaccine (4,446,041 administered) or the second dose of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine (5,772,508 administered).
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