There’s been a 53% drop in the number of daily, new COVID-19 cases being recorded since the last reporting period.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said that since the start of the pandemic, there had now been more than 2.9 million coronavirus cases diagnosed in South Africa.
To date, 87,819 people have succumbed to the disease.
In the past 24-hour reporting period, 429 new coronavirus infections were recorded, compared to 809 the day before while 39 deaths were recorded over the time frame.
The NICD said that this latest number of new cases was also lower than the average number of new daily cases recorded over the past seven days.
Twenty-two percent of the new coronavirus cases were recorded in the Western Cape, 21% in KwaZulu-Natal and 19% in Gauteng.
More than 184,000 coronavirus vaccine shots were administered in the past 24 hours.
South Africa has now administered over 18 million COVID-19 vaccine shots.
