11 June 2021 - 19:29 By TimesLIVE There were more than 1,000 new hospital admissions for Covid-19 across SA in the past 24 hours, as the third wave of infections set in. More than 8,000 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours. Image: 123RF/HXDBZXY SA recorded just over 8,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Friday night. The 8,021 new infections came at a positivity rate of 16.5%, and take the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases across SA to 1,730,106 since the outbreak of the coronavirus in SA in March last year. “The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (60%), followed by the Western Cape (9%) province,” the NICD said.