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1 682 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In SA

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The NICD reports 1,682 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,700,484. This increase represents a 5.8% 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. Today, the NDoH reports 62 deaths and of these, 3 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 99,829 to date.

23,514,233 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,777,020	54.3%	17,025	58.3%
Public	10,737,213	45.7%	12,156	41.7%
Total	23,514,233	100.0%	29,181	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (34%), followed by Western Cape (29%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 19% and Mpumalanga accounted for 5%. Eastern Cape, Free State and North West each accounted for 3% respectively; and Limpopo & Northern Cape each accounted for 2% respectively of today’s new cases

The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Total cases for 16 March 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 16 March 2022	Incident infections for 17 March 2022	Possible reinfections for 17 March 2022	New cases on 17 March 2022	Total cases for 17 March 2022	Percentage total
344,340	0	344,340	49	6	55	344,395	9.3
201,766	0	201,766	39	6	45	201,811	5.5
1,201,790	0	1,201,790	509	62	571	1,202,361	32.5
656,399	0	656,399	294	30	324	656,723	17.7
155,400	0	155,400	26	5	31	155,431	4.2
192,564	0	192,564	70	12	82	192,646	5.2
192,229	-1	192,228	54	3	57	192,285	5.2
108,685	0	108,685	24	3	27	108,712	2.9
645,630	0	645,630	412	78	490	646,120	17.5
3,698,803	-1	3,698,802	1,477	205	1,682	3,700,484	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 5.8%, which is lower than yesterday (6.2 %). The 7-day average is 5.9% today, which is the lower than yesterday (6.0%)

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 41 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The following table is a summary of reported COVID-19 admissions by sector.

Sector	Facilities Reporting	Admissions to Date	Died to Date	Currently Admitted
Private	259	231,615	39,342	832
Public	407	278,340	62,110	1228
TOTAL	666	509,955	101,452	2,060