South Africa had 16,726 new Covid-19 coronavirus cases, according to health minister Zweli Mhkize.
There have been a total of 28,887 deaths to date from a total of 1,073,887 confirmed positive cases with 171,921 from the Eastern Cape. There have been 887,701 recoveries.
With 291,392 confirmed cases, Gauteng has the highest number of infections nationwide.