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NICD Reports 1 678 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

FILE PHOTO: Beds are seen at a temporary field hospital set up in a sports complex by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

The NICD reports 1,678 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,902,672. This increase represents a 4.1% positivity rate.

As per the National Department of Health, a further 101 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 87,626 to date. 17,649,727 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	9,539,197	54%	19,373	48%
PUBLIC	8,151,210	46%	21,307	52%
Total	17,690,407		40,680

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (22%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (20%), Gauteng Province accounted for 14%; Eastern Cape & Free State accounted for 12% each; Northern Cape accounted for 10%; North West & Mpumalanga accounted for 5% each; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s new cases.

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

Province	Total cases for 29 September 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 29 September 2021	New cases on 30 September 2021	Total cases for 30 September 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	290,207	0	290,207	203	290,410	10.0
Free State	161,142	0	161,142	197	161,339	5.6
Gauteng	916,136	0	916,136	241	916,377	31.6
KwaZulu-Natal	511,461	0	511,461	333	511,794	17.6
Limpopo	121,806	0	121,806	21	121,827	4.2
Mpumalanga	150,821	0	150,821	79	150,900	5.2
North West	149,413	0	149,413	77	149,490	5.2
Northern Cape	90,570	0	90,570	164	90,734	3.1
Western Cape	509,438	0	509,438	363	509,801	17.6
Total	2,900,994	0	2,900,994	1,678	2,902,672	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE The total number of cases today (n=1 678) is lower than yesterday (n=2 106) and higher than the average number of new cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n=1 513).

The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 128 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	258	198,914	36,612	3,524
Public	409	230,691	56,242	3,052
TOTAL	667	429,605	92,854	6,576