Health Minister Zweli Mkhize revealed on Tuesday that the Eastern Cape has overtaken Gauteng with the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa.
Mkhize tweeted that the Eastern Cape now has 4 324 confirmed cases. This means that it has 48 more cases than Gauteng (4 276), the country’s economic hub and most populous province.
He noted that the Western Cape’s tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases now stands at 23 583. The province, which is the epicentre of the pandemic in South Africa, accounts for almost two-thirds of the country’s 35 812 confirmed cases thus far (as of Tuesday).
The Western Cape is still the epicentre of the pandemic in SA, with 23 583 cases.
The National death toll stands at 755.
