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NICD Reports 15 036 New Cases As SA Moves To Level 4

Today the NICD reports 15,036 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,928,897. This increase represents a 26.9 % positivity rate. A further 122 COVID-19-related deaths have been reported, bringing the total fatalities to 59 900 to date.

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12 968 748 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	7 332 088	57%	34 211	61%
Public	5 636 660	43%	21 709	39%
Total	12 968 748		55 920

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (66%), followed by the Western Cape (9%). The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on 27 June 2021	Total cases for 27 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	326	205,545	10.7
Free State	375	113,317	5.9
Gauteng	9,858	620,956	32.2
KwaZulu-Natal	763	351,916	18.2
Limpopo	732	74,151	3.8
Mpumalanga	621	92,914	4.8
North West	854	93,071	4.8
Northern Cape	197	58,537	3.0
Western Cape	1,310	318,490	16.5
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	15036	1,928,897	100.0

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

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

An increase of 361 hospital admissions has been reported in the past 24 hours.

The following is a list of COVID-19 hospital admissions that have been reported:

Sector	Facilities Reporting	Admissions to Date	Died to Date	Currently Admitted
Private	257	142,804	23,836	7,458
Public	400	157,644	37,378	3,955
TOTAL	657	300,448	61,214	11,413

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