Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now a total of 434,200 cases of coronavirus in South Africa.
This is an increase of 12,204 cases from the 421,996 infections reported on Friday.
The data shows that there are 312 new Covid-19 related deaths, taking the total to 6,655 casualties, with a 24-hour high of 572 deaths reported on Wednesday evening.
Dr Mkhize pointed to 263,054 recoveries to date. A total of 2.73 million tests have been conducted, with 46,324 tests conducted over the past 24 hours, the minister said.
As of today, the total number of confirmed