Health officials on Saturday said they had detected 5,424 new coronavirus infections, including 312 that were imported.

They said a further seven Covid patients died.

There were 23 new cases of the XBB sub-variant, as well as two new BA.2.75.2 cases and four more cases of the BQ.1.1 mutant strain.

So far, the SAR has seen 55 XBB cases, and five of the BQ.1.1 sub-variant.
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