The health ministry on Wednesday also announced an increase of 103 Covid-19 related deaths, taking the national total to 2,205. This is the second day in a row that there have been more than 100 deaths in a 24-hour period.
Wednesday's infection figures means that the past five days have accounted for four of SA's biggest single-day increases in cases:It took 66 days for SA to register its first 10,000 cases , but just two days to reach its most recent 10,000 cases. While the Western Cape remains the country's Covid-19 epicentre, it no longer accounts for more than half of the country's total cases - the first time this has been the case for a number of weeks.
Of the total 111,796 total cases, just over 49.3% were in the Western Cape. Gauteng accounts for 26,156 cases and the Eastern Cape 19,214 cases .The statistics were based on a total of 1,416,894 tests, of which 34,122 were done in the past 24-hour cycle.
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