SPIKE IN NUMBER OF POSITIVE COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

This is the highest number recorded in recent days reflecting a 15. 8% positivity rate increase.

FILE: A health worker conducts a COVID-19 coronavirus molecular test in Parkview, Johannesburg, on 22 October 2020. Picture: LUCA SOLA/AFP

Sifiso Zulu | 

JOHANNESBURG - The latest numbers of daily COVID-19 infections in South Africa show a spike of positive cases at 4,406 in the latest period under review.

This is the highest number recorded in recent days reflecting a 15. 8% positivity rate increase.

65 deaths have been recorded in the past 48 hours.