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NICD Reports 18 035 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

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The NICD have noted a total of 18,035 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported in the past 24 hours bringing the positivity testing rate to 28.9%.

The NICD was informed in the previous week that information technology (IT) challenges had been experienced by public sector laboratories, which have resulted in reporting delays. Some COVID-19 surveillance data may take longer to reflect on the national line list.

Today they report 37 875 cases, which includes 19 840 retrospective cases and 18 035 new cases.

The NICD is committed to transparent reporting and will continue to update COVID-19 surveillance databases retrospectively as the impacted public laboratories remedy the existing IT difficulties. This will result in retrospective data being processed onto the line list, increasing the cumulative number of tests.

As per the National Department of Health, a further 21 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 90 137 to date.

20 238 805 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	10,907,837	53.9%	34,181	54.8%
Public	9,330,968	46.1%	28,299	45.2%
Total	20,238,805		62,414

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (42%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (16%). Western Cape accounted for 13%; Eastern Cape and Free State each accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 5%; Limpopo accounted for 4%; and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

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

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 28.9% which is higher than yesterday (16.4%). The 7-day average is 29.7% today, which is higher than yesterday (24.4%).

Province	Total cases for 11 December 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 11 December 2021	New cases on 12 December 2021	Retrospective cases on 12 December 2021	Total cases for 12 December 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	298,068	0	298,068	1,134	2,097	300,165	9.5
Free State	170,766	0	170,766	1,1071	1,938	172,704	5.5
Gauteng	1,046,633	0	1,046,633	7,488	16,716	1,063,349	33.6
KwaZulu-Natal	534,137	0	534,137	2,974	6,246	540,383	17.1
Limpopo	129,877	0	129,877	789	1,366	131,243	4.1
Mpumalanga	161,661	0	161,661	949	2,010	163,671	5.2
North West	162,447	1	162,448	917	2,346	164,794	5.2
Northern Cape	94,597	-1	94,596	346	501	95,097	3.0
Western Cape	531,436	0	531,436	2,367	4,655	536,091	16.9
Total	3,129,622	0	3,129,622	18,035	37,875	3,167,497	100.0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

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There has been an increase of 96 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	205,320	37,512	2,494
Public	407	241,186	57,470	3,069
TOTAL	665	446,506	94,982	5,563