(Bloomberg) -- The daily number of people admitted to hospital in South Africa with Covid-19 more than doubled on Tuesday from a day earlier.
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases 383 people have been admitted to hospital with the disease in the last 24 hours compared with 175 in the preceding period.
Of the 13,147 new cases recorded 64% were in Gauteng, the province that includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, compared with 70% of the 6,381 cases the day earlier, according to a statement from the NICD.
The positivity rate of tests was 24.9% on Tuesday, down from 26.4% the day earlier.
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