123RF/lightwiseOn Friday, the health ministry announced that there were 6,282 new cases of the illness, taking the national total to 124,590.70,540 were women and 53,123 men — with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases classifying 927 cases as “unknown”.There were also an extra 48 Covid-19 related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the national total to 2,340. Of the newly reported deaths, 40 were from the Western Cape and eight from the Eastern Cape.
KwaZulu-Natal, the North West province and the Free State passed their own milestones on Friday, reaching more than 7,000, 3,000 cases and 1,000 cases respectively. KZN has 7,090 cases, the North West has 3,218 cases and the Free State 1,069 cases.The ministry said that there were 64,111 recorded recoveries.MORE