Be Smart About South Africa

NICD Reports 443 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

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 443 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 993 444. This increase represents a 3.9% positivity rate.

Today, the NDoH reports 19 deaths, and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,764 to date.

25 720 034 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	14,001,793	54.4%	5,751	50.8%
Public	11,718,241	45.6%	5,563	49.2%
Total	25,720,034	100.0%	11,314	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (37%) followed by Western Cape (19%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape accounted for 10%; Free State accounted for 5% ; Mpumalanga and North West accounted for 4% each respectively; Northern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 3% of today’s cases respectively.

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

Province	Total cases for 28 June 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 28 June 2022	Incident infections for 29 June 2022	Possible reinfections for 29 June 2022	New cases on 29 June 2022	Total cases for 29 June 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	363,461	1	363,462	34	10	44	363,506	9,1
Free State	215,679	0	215,679	17	6	23	215,702	5,4
Gauteng	1,320,665	0	1,320,665	143	20	163	1,320,828	33,1
KwaZulu-Natal	715,544	-4	715,540	59	6	65	715,605	17,9
Limpopo	159,396	0	159,396	11	4	15	159,411	4,0
Mpumalanga	201,621	0	201,621	13	6	19	201,640	5,0
North West	201,622	0	201,622	18	1	19	201,641	5,0
Northern Cape	115,095	-1	115,094	13	0	13	115,107	2,9
Western Cape	699,921	1	699,922	67	15	82	700,004	17,5
Total	3,993,004	-3	3,993,001	375	68	443	3,993,444	100,0

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

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is (3.9%), and is higher than yesterday (3.3%). The 7-day average is (5.1%) today, and is lower than yesterday (5.3%)

For more detailed information, visit the GIS Dashboard.

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

There has been an increase of 18 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	249,080	40,520	669
Public	407	289,732	63,368	835
TOTAL	669	538,812	103,888	1,509