The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 1 332 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 582 691.
This increase represents a 7.8% positivity rate.
Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health, there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported.
NDoH reports 88 deaths and of these, 14 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 94 265 to date.
About 22 041 433 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.
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The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (35%), followed by Western Cape (17%).
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 16%; Mpumalanga accounted for 9%; Free State, Limpopo and North West each accounted for 6% respectively; Eastern Cape accounted for 3%; and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases.
The NICD, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.
