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NICD Reports 171 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

The institute reports 171 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 4,000,631.

The NDoH reports 4 deaths, of which 0 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 101,922 to date.

25,887,017 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	14,085,925	54.4%	2,761	56.1%
Public	11,801,092	45.6%	2,159	43.9%
Total	25,887,017	100.0%	4,920	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The total number of new cases by province is shown in the table below

Province	New cases on 18 July 2022
EASTERN CAPE	4
FREE STATE	3
GAUTENG	66
KWAZULU-NATAL	27
LIMPOPO	1
MPUMALANGA	8
NORTH WEST	2
NORTHERN CAPE	2
WESTERN CAPE	58
Total		171

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

There has been an increase of 3 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	262	249,796	40,603	480
Public	407	290,359	63,487	562
TOTAL	669	540,155	104,090	1,042

VACCINE UPDATE

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