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NICD Reports 356 New COVID-19 Cases

A row of beds at the CTICC COVID-19 field hospital. Image: Premier Alan Winde/Twitter

The NICD reports 356 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,924,978. This increase represents a 1.1% positivity rate.As per the National Department of Health, a further 17 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89,452 to date.

18,835,534 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	10,151,186	53.9%	16,444	49.4%
PUBLIC	8,684,348	46.1%	16,858	50.6%
Total	18,835,534		33,302

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (34%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 19%. Western Cape accounted for 12%; Northern Cape accounted for 11%; Free State accounted for 9%; North West accounted for 5%; Limpopo and Mpumalanga each accounted for 4% respectively; and Eastern Cape accounted for 3% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 10 Nov 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 10 Nov 2021	New cases on 11 Nov 2021	Total cases for 11 Nov 2021
Eastern Cape	292,524	0	292,524	12	292,536
Free State	163,780	0	163,780	33	163,813
Gauteng	920,289	-3	920,286	120	920,406
KwaZulu-Natal	516,047	0	516,047	66	516,113
Limpopo	122,301	1	122,302	15	122,317
Mpumalanga	152,187	1	152,188	14	152,202
North West	150,792	1	150,793	17	150,810
Northern Cape	92,656	0	92,656	38	92,694
*Western Cape	514,046	0	514,046	41	514,087
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0
Total	2,924,622	0	2,924,622	356	2,924,978

*There may be discrepancies in the numbers of cases and recoveries reported for the Western Cape, as the Western Cape reporting currently includes re-infections and additional cases identified by antigen tests, which are not incorporated into the national line list for reporting. As a result, the number of recoveries for the Western Cape has been kept static on the national reports. We are working with Western Cape health authorities to align the reporting and resolve these discrepancies.

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCEThe total number of cases today (n= 356) is higher than yesterday (n= 305) and higher than the average number of cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n= 275).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 41 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	201,042	37,274	2,138
Public	408	234,971	57,086	1,498
TOTAL	666	436,013	94,360	3,636