SA sees significant drop in new Covid cases, KZN leads infections
Communicable diseases experts say they have recorded a decrease in the seven-day moving average of Covid-19 figures.
There's been 5,644 new infections that were picked up in the last 24-hour cycle.
This represents a 17.6 percent positivity rate.
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Compared to Sunday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 7,740 new cases.
Another 235 more people, diagnosed with coronavirus, have died, taking our pandemic fatalities to 81 830.
KwaZulu-Natal registered almost 2 000 new cases.
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"The majority of new cases today [Monday] are from KwaZulu-Natal (35%), followed by Western Cape and Eastern Cape (16%) each. Free State accounted for 10%; Northern Cape accounted for 7%; Gauteng Province and Mpumalanga accounted for 6% each; North West accounted for 3%; and Limpopo Province accounted for 1%," the NICD said.
With regards to the vaccine rollout, 12.2 million doses of the Covid vaccine have been administered nationally to date.
