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NICD Reports 4 230 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

Today the institute reports 4,230 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,759,689. This increase represents a 16.8% 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 12 deaths, and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,298 to date.

24,313,334 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	13,232,755	54.4%	14,728	58.5%
Public	11,080,579	45.6%	10,433	41.5%
Total	24,313,334	100.0%	25,161	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (48%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (22%). Western Cape accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 4% and Free State accounted for 3%. Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 2% respectively; Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of today’s new cases respectively. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 22 April 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 22 April 2022	Incident infections for 23 April 2022	Possible reinfections for 23 April 2022	New cases on 23 April 2022	Total cases for 23 April 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	346,949	0	346,949	141	32	173	347,122	9,2
Free State	203,290	0	203,290	123	21	144	203,434	5,4
Gauteng	1,226,348	0	1,226,348	1,772	264	2,036	1,228,384	32,7
KwaZulu-Natal	668,120	0	668,120	777	146	923	669,043	17,8
Limpopo	156,220	-1	156,219	26	5	31	156,250	4,2
Mpumalanga	194,143	0	194,143	81	21	102	194,245	5,2
North West	193,733	1	193,734	91	14	105	193,839	5,2
Northern Cape	109,205	0	109,205	49	10	59	109,264	2,9
Western Cape	657,451	0	657,451	554	103	657	658,108	17,5
Total	3,755,459	0	3,755,459	3,614	616	4,230	3,759,689	100,0

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

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is (16.8%), and is lower than yesterday (17.8%). The 7-day average is (13.1%) today, and is higher than yesterday (11.7%).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 25 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	237,999	39,876	1,129
Public	407	280,355	62,292	1,115
TOTAL	666	518,354	102,168	2,244