South Africa's coronavirus death toll up by 188
One hundred and eighty-eight more people diagnosed with coronavirus have died, bringing South Africa's COVID-19 death toll to 16 586.
One hundred and seventy-eight of those deaths were registered in the Free State, in the last 24 hours.
The Health Ministry's explained there'd been a two-week delay in the reporting of fatalities there, as the province had been verifying data with Home Affairs.
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The number of cases identified in the country's climbed to over 671 000 - after an increase of 903 new infections in the last 24 hours.
KwaZulu-Natal accounts for 17% of cases overall, with more than 2 600 deaths.
Our recovery rate remains steady at 90%, with over 604 000 recoveries.
#COVID19 Statistics in SA as at 28 September.
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