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NICD Reports 3 699 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

The NICD reports 3,699 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,648,968. This increase represents a 9.7% positivity rate.

Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported. Today, the NDoH reports 89 deaths and of these, 7 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 97,520 to date.

22,762,117 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,343,731	54.2%	21,398	56.1%
Public	10,418,386	45.8%	16,735	43.9%
Total	22,762,117	100.0%	38,133	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (36%), followed by Western Cape (17%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 12%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 9% respectively; Free State accounted for 6%; Limpopo accounted for 5%; Eastern Cape 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:

Province	Total cases for 15 Feb 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 15 Feb 2022	New cases on 16 Feb 2022	Total cases for 16 Feb 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	342,377	0	342,377	143	342,520	9.4
Free State	199,134	0	199,134	237	199,371	5.5
Gauteng	1,182,100	2	1,182,102	1,328	1,183,430	32.4
KwaZulu-Natal	647,982	0	647,982	458	648,440	17.8
Limpopo	153,631	0	153,631	176	153,807	4.2
Mpumalanga	189,022	-3	189,019	317	189,336	5.2
North West	188,745	1	188,746	338	189,084	5.2
Northern Cape	107,819	0	107,819	66	107,885	3.0
Western Cape	634,459	0	634,459	636	635,095	17.4
Total	3,645,269	0	3,645,269	3,699	3,648,968	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 9.7%, which is higher than yesterday (7.7%). The 7-day average is 8.2% today, which is higher than yesterday (8.1%).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 78 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	259	228,501	39,047	1,872
Public	407	275,159	61,840	1,842
TOTAL	666	503,660	100,887	3,714