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NICD Reports 947 New COVID-19 Cases

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

The NICD reports 947 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,914,827. This increase represents a 2.7% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 40 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 88,506 to date.

18,090,841 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	9,750,238	54%	18,261	52%
PUBLIC	8,340,603	46%	17,156	48%
Total	18,090,841		35,417

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (25%), followed by Western Cape accounting for 20%. Gauteng accounted for 14%; Northern Cape accounted for 12%; Free State accounted for 11%; Eastern Cape accounted for 8%; North West accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga accounted for 4%; 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 13 Oct 2021	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 13 Oct 2021	New cases on 14 Oct 2021	Total cases for 14 Oct 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	291,716	0	291,716	74	291,790	10.0
Free State	162,514	1	162,515	107	162,622	5.6
Gauteng	918,072	6	918,078	129	918,207	31.5
KwaZulu-Natal	514,016	3	514,019	233	514,252	17.6
Limpopo	122,054	1	122,055	13	122,068	4.2
Mpumalanga	151,473	2	151,475	38	151,513	5.2
North West	150,126	-13	150,113	55	150,168	5.2
Northern Cape	91,751	0	91,751	113	91,864	3.2
Western Cape	512,158	0	512,158	185	512,343	17.6
Unknown	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Total	2,913,880	0	2,913,880	947	2,914,827	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCEThe total number of cases today (n= 947) is higher than yesterday (n= 942) and higher than the average number of new cases per day over the 7 preceding days (n= 724).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 84 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	200,071	36,887	3,019
Public	408	232,502	56,674	2,130
TOTAL	666	432,573	93,561	5,149