According to the department, 53 more coronavirus deaths were recorded, pushing the country’s death toll to 19,164.
According to Western Cape health authorities, 106 people had recovered.
Just over 3,100 people in the province are currently infected with the coronavirus and 561 of these are being treated in hospital.
Amateurs can train under strict health protocols because of the coronavirus pandemic, but are barred from playing.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in isolation after he came into contact with someone who tested positive.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni warned that public finances needed to be rehabilitated as efforts went into helping the economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has presented the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) against the backdrop of growing national debt and an economy decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africans should not be alarmist about lockdown regulations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he had so far received two interim reports from the SIU outlining the progress the unit had made adding that these reports would be made public once all necessary processes were completed and there was no risk of jeopardising ongoing investigations.
Julius Malema said that the EFF demanded that the authorities should not only go after certain individuals accused of corruption but must also focus on bringing criminal charges against the CEOs of banks who were found to have manipulated the rand's value among others.
The National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations get underway in 10 days amid concern over the risk of a second wave of COVID-19.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is calling for workers to contact the party to alert it of companies that had not paid the UIF.
The data is contained in a study conducted by the University of Cape Town's research unit on the economics of excisable products.
This week, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize raised concerns at the country's COVID-19 cases, warning about small flames that had flared up across the country.
The Department of Higher Education said that COVID-19 has had a varying impact on institutions and that it was for this reason that the completion of the academic year would happen at different times for each university.
This data was obtained from the University of Johannesburg and Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) COVID-19 Democracy Survey.
According to the Department of Health, as of Thursday, 2,156 new infections were picked up pushing the number of known cases in the country since the start of the outbreak to 710,515.
Deputy President David Mabuza blamed government systems and controls and also cited the human factor for failing to detect rampant corruption linked to COVID-19 social relief and the procurement of protective equipment and supplies.
