Johannesburg - With almost 1 000 new cases in Gauteng as of Sunday night, the province now has about 930 more active cases than the Western Cape.
Active cases - those who are currently living with the virus - stand at over 43 764 across the country, with the most active cases being recorded in Gauteng.
Although the Western Cape has more than triple the confirmed infections, the province has also seen over 35 000 people recover from the virus, reducing active cases in the province to around 14 000 cases, while Gauteng has over 15 000 cases - with fewer recoveries, fewer deaths and fewer cases.
This means Gauteng has more than double the number of active cases than the Eastern Cape, which has over 7 700 active cases.
The Johannesburg region alone has almost the same number of active cases than the whole Eastern Cape province.
Active Cases
Active Cases
Deaths
Recoveries
Total Infections
South Africa
43764
1930
51608
97302
Gauteng
15394
122
5306
20822
Western Cape
14463
1419
35559
51441
Eastern Cape
7728
285
7738
15751
KZN
2352
84
2594
5030
Tracking Covid-19 in Gauteng
The Gauteng Department of Health released its latest provincial statistics on Monday, showing the Joburg region as the provincial hot spot for the virus.
The data shows that Joburg South and Joburg Inner City (Region F) are the hot spot for the virus, with about 1 825 active cases estimated. (Active cases are estimated for sub-districts as the department does not disclose deaths at this level).
Soweto (Region D) is the second hardest hit area in the province, with over 1260 estimated active cases.
The third hardest hit area is the Alexandra and Sandton area (Region E), which has about 1055 active cases.
Joburg Suburbs
Region A - Diepsloot, Dainfern, Fourways - 580
Region B - Randburg, Rosebank, Melville - 880
Region C - Roodepoort, Florida, Constantia Kloof - 945
Region D - Soweto - 1260
Region E - Alexandra, Sandton - 1055
Region F - Joburg CBD, Joburg South - 1825
Meanwhile, the data shows that there were almost 3 000 active cases in Ekurhuleni, just under 2 500 cases in Tshwane, just over 1 000 active cases in the West Rand and just over 550 active cases in Sedibeng.
Almost 1 000 cases remained unallocated to districts and/or sub-districts.
Total Cases
Total Deaths
Recoveries
Active
Gauteng
20822
122
5306
15394
Johannesburg
10320
69
2924
7327
Ekurhuleni
4168
25
1159
2984
Tshwane
3166
12
690
2464
West Rand
1439
8
423
1008
Sedibeng
675
8
110
557
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