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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reports 1 649 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 640 162. This increase represents an 8.1% positivity rate.
Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported.
On Sunday, the National Department of Health reports 8 deaths and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours.
This brings the total fatalities to 96 993 to date.
22 677 323 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.
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