Another seven people in the Western Cape have died in the past 24 hours because of Covid-19. That brings the provincial death toll to 4-thousand 277. As of one o’clock this afternoon, the Western Cape had 2 818 active COVID-19 infections with a total of 112-thousand 605 confirmed cases and 105-thousand 510 recoveries.

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