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NICD Reports 671 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

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Today the institute reports 671 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,695,175. This increase represents a 4.6% 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 no deaths occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours keeping the total fatalities to 99,725 to date.

23,424,639 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,728,349	54.3%	9,034	62.6%
Public	10,696,290	45.7%	5,406	37.4%
Total	23,424,639	100.0%	14,440	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (45%), followed by Western Cape (20%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 18%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 5%; Free State and Limpopo each accounted for 3%; Eastern Cape accounted for 2%; Northern Cape accounted for 1% of today’s new cases

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

Province	Total cases for 13 March 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 13 March 2022	Incident infections for 14 March 2022	Possible reinfections for 14 March 2022	New cases on 14 March 2022	Total cases for 14 March 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	344,174	0	344,174	12	0	12	344,186	9.3
Free State	201,616	0	201,616	18	0	18	201,634	5.5
Gauteng	1,200,086	0	1,200,086	299	0	299	1,200,385	32.5
KwaZulu-Natal	655,688	0	655,688	119	0	119	655,807	17.7
Limpopo	155,271	0	155,271	18	0	18	155,289	4.2
Mpumalanga	192,354	0	192,354	32	0	32	192,386	5.2
North West	192,039	0	192,039	32	0	32	192,071	5.2
Northern Cape	108,635	-1	108,634	8	0	8	108,642	2.9
Western Cape	644,641	1	644,642	133	0	133	644,775	17.4
Total	3,694,504	0	3,694,504	671	0	671	3,695,175	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 4.6%, which is lower than yesterday (5.5%). The 7-day average is 6.0% today, which is lower than yesterday (6.1%).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

There has been an increase of 24 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	230,144	39,168	968
Public	407	278,066	62,078	1266
TOTAL	666	508,210	101,246	2,234