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NICD Reports 16 240 New Cases

Gauteng healthcare workers screening Alexandra residents for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 31 March 2020 following the roll out of massive community screenings and testing programmes by the provincial executive council. Picture: Ahmed Kajee/EWN.

The NICD reports 16,240 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,327,472. This increase represents a 27.5% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 516 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 68,192 to date.

14,369,234 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	8,045,933	56%	30,841	52%
Public	6,323,301	44%	28,227	48%
Total	14,369,234		59,068

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (32%), followed by the Western Cape (21%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 11%; Limpopo and North West each accounted for 9%; Mpumalanga accounted for 7%; Eastern Cape accounted for 5%; Free State accounted for 3%; and the Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 20 July 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 20 July 2021	New cases on 21 July 2021	Total cases for 21 July 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	219,696	0	219,696	872	220,568	9.5
Free State	123,795	-2	123,793	545	124,338	5.3
Gauteng	822,159	15	822,174	5,219	827,393	35.5
KwaZulu-Natal	377,395	0	377,395	1,803	379,198	16.3
Limpopo	102,987	20	103,007	1,388	104,395	4.5
Mpumalanga	115,180	6	115,186	1,128	116,314	5.0
North West	118,772	-41	118,731	1,477	120,208	5.2
Northern Cape	63,725	-1	63,724	337	64,061	2.8
Western Cape	367,523	3	367,526	3,471	370,997	15.9
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Total	2,311,232	0	2,311,232	16,240	2,327,472	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The total number of cases today (n= 16 240) is higher than yesterday (n= 8 929) and higher than the average number of new cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n= 12 953).

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

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 831 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	257	166,979	29,065	9,610
Public	410	180,174	42,781	7,676
TOTAL	667	347,153	71,846	17,286

VACCINE UPDATE
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