Cape Town - South Africa’s confirmed Covid-19 cases now stand at 702 131, with 18 408 deaths reported since the coronavirus hit the country in March, the health ministry confirmed on Saturday.Globally, Covid-19 cases reached a record high of 400 000 cases reported in a single day on Friday as most European countries experience a second wave of infections.With 224 863 cases, Gauteng accounts for 32 percent of the national total, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 121 174 cases or 17.3 percent.
Gauteng and the Western Cape have recorded the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities with 4 618 and 4 280 respectively.“The cumulative number of tests conducted to date is 4 528 141 with 22 608 new tests conducted since the last report,” the ministry said on Saturday.Of the 38 Covid-19 related deaths reported over the past 24 hours, 10 were from the Eastern Cape, 10 from the Free State, 17 from Gauteng and 1 from Mpumalanga.
As of Saturday, 630 436 people have recovered from Covid-19, keeping the recovery rate at a steady 90 percent.In the past week, the Free State reported the highest number of new cases , followed by Gauteng , and Western Cape , according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases . As of 10 October 2020, a total of 692 471 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 17 780 deaths , had been detected in South Africa. Of these, 9 634 were cases detected in that week, representing a 7.2% decrease in number of new cases compared to the previous week , the NICD said.
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