# South Africa has recorded eight new Covid-19 related deaths, bringing the total to 96-thousand-and-21. This is as one-thousand-228 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng with 41-percent, followed by Mpumalanga with 14-percent and the Western Cape accounting for 13-percent. There has been an increase of 78 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The country’s recovery rate is around 96-percent.