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NICD Reports 533 New COVID-19 Cases

FILE PHOTO: Beds are seen at a temporary field hospital set up in a sports complex by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, July 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

The NICD reports 533 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,921,114. This increase represents a 1.7% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 55 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89,104 to date.

18,471,818 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	9,953,474	53.9%	15,272	49.5%
PUBLIC	8,518,344	46.1%	15,573	50.5%
Total	18,471,818		30,845

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (28%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 17%. Western Cape accounted for 14%; Free State accounted for 10%; Northern Cape accounted for 8%; Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga each accounted for 7% respectively; North West accounted for 5%; and Limpopo accounted for 4% of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 27 Oct 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 27 Oct 2021	New cases on 28 Oct 2021	Total cases for 28 Oct 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	292,261	0	292,261	36	292,297	10,0
Free State	163,297	0	163,297	53	163,350	5,6
Gauteng	919,173	0	919,173	150	919,323	31,5
KwaZulu-Natal	515,386	0	515,386	93	515,479	17,6
Limpopo	122,213	0	122,213	23	122,236	4,2
Mpumalanga	151,868	0	151,868	35	151,903	5,2
North West	150,569	0	150,569	27	150,596	5,2
Northern Cape	92,361	0	92,361	40	92,401	3,2
Western Cape	513,453	0	513,453	76	513,529	17,6
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0,0
Total	2,920,581	0	2,920,581	533	2,921,114	100,0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCEThe total number of cases today (n=533) is higher than yesterday (n=472) and higher than the average number of cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n=393).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 30 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	200,599	37,110	2,359
Public	408	233,749	56,939	1,580
TOTAL	666	434,348	94,049	3,939