Covid-19 fatalities increase to 88,754

South Africa’s daily COVID-19 casualties are on the rise again.

Eighty more people have died in the country after contracting the virus. These fatalities, recorded over the past 24 hours take our known death toll to 88,754.

Over that same time frame, 591 more tests also came back positive, with the country’s known caseload since the start of the pandemic at over 2.9 million.

 20.7 million jabs have been administered in the country so far.

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