The death toll has also risen to 2,844 with 95 deaths over the past 24-hour cycle.
Experts are concerned about the rising infections in Gauteng, which is now reporting triple the number of daily new COVID-19 infections compared to the Western Cape.
Health MEC Bandile Masuku said the health department was now using mediation more than litigation, and said they saved R38 million last year.
Gauteng accounts for 13% of the country's total number of over 55,000 cases.
As the winter season approaches, there have been concerns around the pandemic overwhelming Gauteng’s health system.
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku and a team of field workers visited the Glen Marikana Informal settlement, near Kempton Park, for a screening and testing campaign aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus on 17 April 2020.
All new patient admissions at Kingsway Hospital have been halted indefinitely.
The facility forms part of the government’s response to flattening the curve against COVID-19.
Makhura urged South Africans to stop panic buying in order to reduce overcrowding and potential infections.
The family refused to be quarantined after a woman and her daughter tested positive for the coronavirus.
The department confirmed she had tested positive after she had direct contact with the first patient from KwaZulu-Natal.
Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, Steve Biko Academic Hospital and Tembisa Hospital have been identified to deal with any patients that test positive.
76-year-old Martha Marais was found by her family restrained under a bench, lying on the tiled floor, at the Mamelodi Hospital last year.
The 183 girls and 207 boys, including one set of twins, were delivered at hospitals and healthcare centres around the province.
Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku was at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg on Christmas morning and met the newborn babies and their moms.
On Wednesday, Eyewitness News revealed how a pregnant woman was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while in labour.
A pregnant woman has told Eyewitness News how she was trapped inside a toilet at the Thelle Mogoerane Hospital in Vosloorus for more than an hour while she was in labour.
In the past financial year, over 4,800 deaths were recorded as a result of gunshots, stabbing and assault.
