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NICD Reports 2 062 New COVID-19 Cases

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 institute reports 2,062 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 970 993 This increase represents an 8.8% positivity rate.

Today, the NDoH reports 47 deaths, and of these, 10 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,397 to date.

25 400 217 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	13,844,179	54.5%	10,716	45.7%
Public	11,556,038	45.5%	12,747	54.3%
Total	25,400,217	100.0%	23,463	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (34%) followed by Western Cape (20%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 13%; Eastern Cape accounted for 11% and Free State accounted for 6%. Mpumalanga and North West accounted for 5% each respectively; Northern Cape accounted for 3%; and Limpopo accounted for 2% of today’s cases.

The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 06 June 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 06 June 2022	Incident infections for 07 June 2022	Possible reinfections for 07 June 2022	New cases on 07 June 2022	Total cases for 07 June 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	361,535	0	361,535	198	31	229	361,764	9,1
Free State	214,458	0	214,458	107	18	125	214,583	5,4
Gauteng	1,311,811	0	1,311,811	594	112	706	1,312,517	33,1
KwaZulu-Natal	712,274	0	712,274	244	34	278	712,552	17,9
Limpopo	158,561	0	158,561	27	8	35	158,596	4,0
Mpumalanga	200,419	0	200,419	88	20	108	200,527	5,0
North West	200,415	0	200,415	85	17	102	200,517	5,0
Northern Cape	114,415	0	114,415	46	13	59	114,474	2,9
Western Cape	695,043	0	695,043	335	85	420	695,463	17,5
Total	3,968,931	0	3,968,931	1,724	338	2,062	3,970,993	100,0

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

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 8.8%, and is higher than yesterday (7.2%). The 7-day average is 9.4% today, and is lower than yesterday (10.0%). The proportions positive per province today are as follows:

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

There has been an increase of 56 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	247,079	40,329	1,052
Public	408	287,888	63,037	1,351
TOTAL	670	534,967	103,366	2,403