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2 782 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In SA

The NICD reports 2,782 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,618,853. This increase represents an 8.9% 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 221 deaths and of these, 14 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 95,766 to date.

22,405,373 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,131,282	54.1%	19,276	62%
Public	10,274,091	45.9%	11,834	38%
Total	22,405,373	100.0%	31,110	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (33%), followed by Western Cape (17%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 13%; Mpumalanga accounted for 10%; Limpopo accounted for 8%; North West accounted for 7%; Free State accounted for 6%; Eastern Cape accounted for 3%; and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases

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

Province	Total cases for 03 February 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 03 February 2022	New cases on 04 February 2022	Total cases for 04 February 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	341,376	2	341,378	97	341,475	9.4
Free State	197,443	0	197,443	176	197,619	5.5
Gauteng	1,171,725	0	1,171,725	916	1,172,641	32.4
KwaZulu-Natal	643,982	-7	643,975	352	644,327	17.8
Limpopo	151,716	0	151,716	236	151,952	4.2
Mpumalanga	186,072	1	186,073	287	186,360	5.1
North West	186,801	0	186,801	192	186,993	5.2
Northern Cape	107,246	0	107,246	59	107,305	3.0
Western Cape	629,714	0	629,714	467	630,181	17.4
Total	3,616,075	-4	3,616,071	2,782	3,618,853	100.0

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 8.9%, which is lower than yesterday (10.6%). The 7-day average is 9.6% today, which is lower than yesterday (9.8%)

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 94 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	226,089	38,907	2,300
Public	407	273,013	61,540	2,511
TOTAL	666	499,102	100,447	4,811