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This brings the total fatalities to 100 211 to date,\u201d said the NICD.<\/P><P>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (46%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (23%).<\/P><P>The Western Cape accounted for 17% of the new cases, Eastern Cape 6%, Free State 3%, Mpumalanga and the North West 2% each, Limpopo and Northern Cape 1% each.<\/P><P>Meanwhile, there has been an increase of 68 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/P><P>Additionally, 24 234 233 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 2 846 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 746 424, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday.The increase represents a 13.4% positivity rate.\u201cDue to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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