There’s been another notable rise in South Africa’s daily COVID-19 infections as 4,230 tests came back positive over the last 24-hour recording period.
This increase represents a 16.8% positivity rate.
Most new cases were picked up in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and Western Cape.
There are rising concerns that the country could be seeing the start of the fifth wave of infections.
However, the Health Department said it was closely monitoring the rapid increase of COVID-19 infections and would inform the public if the situation became alarming.
The ongoing unfortunate backlog by the department has uncovered 12 more COVID-19-related fatalities with two of these having occurred over the past 48 hours.
As of today the cumulative number of #COVID19 cases identified in SA is 3 759 689 with 4 230 new cases reported. Today 12 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 100 298 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 632 572 with a recovery rate of 96,6% pic.twitter.com/rJRZDcjns2
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) April 23, 2022
-EWN
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