NATIONAL NEWS - As of Saturday, 23 April, the cumulative number of detected Covid-19 cases in South Africa is 3,759,689 with 4,230 new cases identified, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) confirmed.
This represents a 16.8 % positivity rate.
Two Covid-19 related deaths were reported, bringing the total number of deaths to 100,298.
There were 25 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
The total number of recoveries stands at 3,632,572. South Africa currently has 26,819 active cases.
24,313,334 tests in total have been conducted to date in both public and private sectors.
Provincial breakdown
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (48%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (22%).
Western Cape accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 4% and Free State accounted for 3% of new cases.
Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 2% respectively while Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of today’s new cases respectively.
