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NICD Reports 809 New COVID-19 Cases

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

The NICD reports 809 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,906,422. This increase represents a 3.4% positivity rate.

As per the National Department of Health, a further 27COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 87,780 to date. 17,783,920 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	9 587 763	53.9%	14 128	59.6%
PUBLIC	8 196 157	46.1%	9 557	40.4%
Total	17 783 920		23 685

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (22%), followed by Western Cape (19%). Eastern Cape accounted for 16%; Gauteng Province accounted for 12%; Northern Cape accounted for 11%; Free State accounted for 9%; North West accounted for 7%; Mpumalanga accounted for 3%; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today’s new cases.

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

Province	Total cases for 02 October 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 02 October 2021	New cases on 03 October 2021	Total cases for 03 October 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	290,771	0	290,771	127	290,898	10.0
Free State	161,652	0	161,652	70	161,722	5.6
Gauteng	916,751	0	916,751	97	916,848	31.5
KwaZulu-Natal	512,372	0	512,372	177	512,549	17.6
Limpopo	121,888	0	121,888	11	121,899	4.2
Mpumalanga	151,051	0	151,051	25	151,076	5.2
North West	149,623	0	149,623	59	149,682	5.2
Northern Cape	91,007	0	91,007	87	91,094	3.1
Western Cape	510,498	0	510,498	156	510,654	17.6
Total	2,905,613	0	2,905,613	809	2,906,422	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The total number of cases today (n=809) is lower than yesterday (n=1 306) and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n=1 354).

The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased

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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	199,120	36,672	3,329
Public	409	231,082	56,321	2,939
TOTAL	667	430,202	92,993	6,268

VACCINE UPDATE
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