SA records 513 more COVID-19 related deaths, 14,000 new infections
513 more people have lost their lives in South Africa after they contracted Covid-19.
The Health Ministry says in the latest 24 hour period, 92 deaths were recorded in KZN.
124 in the Eastern Cape and over 200 in the Western Cape.
This brings the number of coronavirus-related fatalities to 30 524.
There’s been an increase in new infections by over 14 000.
Over 1 million 1 hundred thousand people have tested positive for the virus but more than 920 000 have recovered.
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The Ministry says our positivity rate's dropped from 33-point-7-percent to 30-percent.
The National Coronavirus Command Council will hold its first meeting of the new year today. It comes after the country's Covid-19-related death toll passed the 30 000 mark this week.
Government spokesperson, Phumla Williams, says an address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, won't automatically follow the council meeting.
"They will be convening at 9am. There is no plan of the president having a briefing because we don't even know what will be discussed in the meeting, so there is no information," she said.
