145 deaths and nearly 2,000 new Covid-19 cases recorded in 24 hours

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SA recorded 145 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday.

This meant the country now has 17,248 Covid-19 related deaths and 685,155 cases in total.

Of the new deaths, one was in the Eastern Cape, 11 in the Free State and Mpumalanga, 42 in KwaZulu-Natal, 41 in Gauteng, 24 in Limpopo, seven from the Northern Cape and eight from the Western Cape. Mkhize said there were also a recorded 618,127 recoveries, which translates to a recovery rate of 90%.

 

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