The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa has increased to 1,585.
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said in a statement last night that this was an increase of 80 from the previous day.
The country now has a total of nine confirmed deaths due to COVID-19.
He said the nine confirmed deaths were a 48-year-old woman in the Western Cape; an 85-year-old man in the Free State; a 79-year-old man in Gauteng; and six people in KwaZulu-Natal - four women aged 46, 63, 80, and 81, and two men aged 74 and 80.
Gauteng has 693 cases, most of all provinces, followed by the Western Cape with 433 cases and KwaZulu-Natal with 232.
The number of confirmed cases in the Eastern Cape now stands at 25.
