SA hit by 3,237 new Covid-19 cases in one day

New infections bring the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in SA to 3,844,625.

The NICD says the flu season started in the week of March 24, four weeks earlier than last year and marks the earliest start to the flu season since 2010, based on pneumonia surveillance in public hospitals. Stock image.
The NICD says the flu season started in the week of March 24, four weeks earlier than last year and marks the earliest start to the flu season since 2010, based on pneumonia surveillance in public hospitals. Stock image. (123RF/phonlamaiphoto)

More than half of the 3,237 new positive Covid-19 cases reported on Monday come from Gauteng. 

New infections bring the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in SA to 3,844,625.

The majority of new cases are from Gauteng, with 1,678 (52%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 662 (20%). The Western Cape accounted for 368 (11%); while the Eastern Cape with  163 and Free State with 153 each accounted for 5%.  Mpumalanga (77), North West (66) and Northern Cape (53) each accounted for 2% respectively; and Limpopo with 17 accounted for 1% of Monday’s new cases.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 10 new deaths with four occurring in the past 24-48 hours. 

This brings the total fatalities to 100,533 to date with 24,693,273 tests conducted in both public and private sectors.  

The proportion of the positive new cases has increase by 18.7%, which is lower than Sunday's which saw an increase of 25.3%.

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