"When compared with the predicted numbers, there was an excess of 2,514 deaths in the latest week, higher than the 2,164 in the preceding week," said Debbie Bradshaw, Ria Laubscher, Rob Dorrington, Pam Groenewald and Tom Moultrie.
"The number remains significantly higher than the predicted number for persons 1-59 years and for persons 60-plus years," said the MRC team.
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