For the first time, South Africa is reporting more than 10,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a single day.
That brings the country's total confirmed cases to more than 187,977, by far the most of any country in Africa.
South Africa also has surpassed 3,000 deaths in this outbreak.
Cases continue to rise in Gauteng province, home of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria, which now has close to one-third of the country's infections.
Officials have said beds in public hospitals are filling up, and nurses have expressed alarm.
The African continent overall has nearly 450,000 confirmed cases.
