SA records almost 19,000 new Covid-19 cases on Christmas Eve as total infections reach nearly 3.4-million

The province with the highest number of new cases was KwaZulu-Natal (4,815), followed closely by the Western Cape (4,632) and Gauteng (3,376).

The only other province to record more than 1,000 cases in the past day was the Eastern Cape, with 2,101 confirmed infections.

The NICD also reported that according to health department data, there were 81 new Covid-19 related deaths reported in the past day, taking the total number of confirmed fatalities to date to 90,743.

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