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NICD Reports 1 867 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

The Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku with teams of field workers in Ekurhuleni District, Glen Marikana Informal settlement to form part of the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 on 17 April 2020. Pictures: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

The NICD reports 1,867 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,688,423. This increase represents a 6.5% 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 13 deaths and of these, 10 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 99,656 to date.

23,314,522 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,666,705	54.3%	15,603	54.4%
Public	10,647,817	45.7%	13,064	45.6%
Total	23,314,522	100.0%	28,667	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (37%), followed by Western Cape (26%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 15%; Free State, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 5% respectively; Eastern Cape accounted for 4%; Limpopo accounted for 3%; and Northern Cape 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 8 March 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 8 March 2022	New cases on 9 March 2022	Total cases for 9 March 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	343,909	0	343,909	67	343,976	9.3
Free State	201,261	0	201,261	86	201,347	5.5
Gauteng	1,197,357	-3	1,197,354	683	1,198,037	32.5
KwaZulu-Natal	654,326	1	654,327	280	654,607	17.7
Limpopo	154,965	0	154,965	61	155,026	4.2
Mpumalanga	191,956	0	191,956	92	192,048	5.2
North West	191,624	1	191,625	90	191,715	5.2
Northern Cape	108,514	0	108,514	25	108,539	2.9
Western Cape	642,644	1	642,645	483	643,128	17.4
Total	3,686,556	0	3,686,556	1,867	3,688,423	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 6.5%, which is higher than yesterday (5.5%). The 7-day average is 6.1% today, which is lower than yesterday (6.2%).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 60 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	230,390	39,185	1,152
Public	407	277,702	62,055	1,334
TOTAL	666	508,092	101,240	2,486