South Africa on Saturday reported 10,939 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 912,477, the country’s health ministry reported.
This is the highest number of cases than any other daily increase since August.
Meanwhile, 254 more COVID-19 deaths were recorded, taking the country’s death toll from the disease to 24,539, it said.
The department also reported a total of 787,782 recoveries from the disease to date.
Health systems in regions like the Eastern Cape and some in the Western Cape are seeing a notable uptick in hospital admissions amid warnings from health experts that the resurgence is being fuelled by a new variant of the virus.
South Africa accounts for more than a third of the coronavirus cases reported across the African continent.
