SA records 213 new COVID-19 deaths, 8 195 cases
Two hundred and thirteen new coronavirus related deaths have been recorded in South Africa.
Thirty-one of these fatalities were in KwaZulu-Natal.
The death toll’s now increased to 8 366.
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Nearly 8 200 new cases have been registered - pushing the number of confirmed infections so far to over 511 000.
More than 347 000 have recovered.
KZN’s confirmed 82 300 cases, 875 deaths and 37 000 recoveries.
#COVID19 UPDATE: A total of 34 794 #COVID19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, with 8195 new cases. Regrettably, we report 213 more #COVID19 related deaths bringing the total number of deaths to 8366. Click the link to view the full report https://t.co/4ma7tZ7iqk pic.twitter.com/6ymM2DMKqG
— NICD (@nicd_sa) August 2, 2020
