Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday revealed that Covid-19 had claimed 128 people in the past 24 hours, with the majority of the deaths reported in the Western Cape.

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Meanwhile, Mkhize earlier revealed that between 5 March and 21 June the National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported that there were 10 700 Covid-19 admissions at 269 health facilities nationally - 71 public facilities and 198 private facilities.

"Of the 5 836 patients who had a comorbid condition, the most commonly reported were hypertension at 3 419, diabetes 2 813 and there were 1 116 patients admitted with HIV, 240 with active TB and 579 patients with previous history of TB," said Mkhize.

Mkhize added that, of the 10 700 admissions, 3 260 patients were in hospital at the time of the report, 5 925 were discharged alive or transferred out, and 1 515 patients had died, equating to an in-hospital case fatality ratio of 21%.

"Some of the factors associated with in-hospital mortality were older age groups of males having comorbid hypertension, diabetes, chronic cardiac disease, chronic renal disease, malignancy, HIV and obesity," said Mkhize.