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NICD Reported 8 351 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

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Today the institute reports 8,351 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,879,434. This increase represents a 22.5% positivity rate.

Today, the NDoH reports *114 deaths and of these 3 deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 100,744 to date.

*As per the NDoH, please be advised that North West reported 92 retrospective deaths today due to data cleaning and the Free State reported 11 retrospective deaths today. Some of the retrospective deaths only merged with the cumulative case line list recently, due to incorrect names and surnames that were captured on the DATCOV system.

24,841,314 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	13,549,047	54.5%	20,781	56.0%
Public	11,292,267	45.5%	16,334	44.0%
Total	24,841,314	100.0%	37,115	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (40%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal (19%). Western Cape accounted for 18%; Eastern Cape accounted for 7%; Free State accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga, North West and Northern Cape each accounted for 3% respectively; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 12 May 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 12 May 2022	New cases on 13 May 2022	Total cases for 13 May 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	353,145	7	353,152	601	353,753	9,1
Free State	208,666	0	208,666	469	209,135	5,4
Gauteng	1,276,565	0	1,276,565	3,329	1,279,894	33,0
KwaZulu-Natal	696,708	-10	696,698	1,612	698,310	18,0
Limpopo	157,367	-5	157,362	83	157,445	4,1
Mpumalanga	197,039	5	197,044	254	197,298	5,1
North West	196,697	1	196,698	263	196,961	5,1
Northern Cape	110,979	-6	110,973	233	111,206	2,9
Western Cape	673,919	6	673,925	1,507	675,432	17,4
Total	3,871,085	-2	3,871,083	8,351	3,879,434	100,0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is (22.5%), and is lower than yesterday (23.1%). The 7-day average is (24.1%) today, and is lower than yesterday (24.7 %).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 136 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	261	242,054	40,027	1,541
Public	407	283,369	62,538	1,469
TOTAL	668	525,423	102,565	3,010