123 new COVID-19 deaths recorded in South Africa
One hundred and twenty-three more people have lost their lives in South Africa, after contracting COVID-19, bringing our death toll to 18 151.
The Health Ministry says KwaZulu-Natal's reported 17 fatalities in the last 24 hours and has over 5 700 active cases.
More than 1 800 new infections have been registered.
It's taken the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus, since the outbreak here, to over 696 000.
Of that figure, there've been more than 626 000 recoveries.
As of today, the total number of confirmed #COVID19 cases is 696 414, the total number of deaths is 18 151 and the total number of recoveries is 626 898. pic.twitter.com/MDWdA7pE8r
— Dr Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) October 14, 2020
