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SA Reports 1 752 New COVID-19 Cases In SA

Gauteng healthcare workers screening Alexandra residents for coronavirus (COVID-19) on 31 March 2020 following the roll out of massive community screenings and testing programmes by the provincial executive council. Picture: Ahmed Kajee/EWN.

The NICD reports 1,752 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,623,962. This increase represents an 8.0% 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 18 deaths and of these, 8 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 95, 835 to date.

22,464,999 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	12,166,237	54.2%	14,933	68.5%
Public	10,298,762	45.8%	6,867	31.5%
Total	22,464,999	100.0%	21,800	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (34%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal (17%). Western Cape accounted for 15%; Mpumalanga accounted for 9% and North West accounted for 8%. Free State and Limpopo each accounted for 5% respectively; Eastern Cape accounted for 3% and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases

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

Province	Total cases for 05 February 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 05 February 2022	New cases on 06 February 2022	Total cases for 06 February 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	341,558	-1	341,557	60	341,617	9,4
Free State	197,860	0	197,860	96	197,956	5,5
Gauteng	1,173,688	0	1,173,688	604	1,174,292	32,4
KwaZulu-Natal	644,763	1	644,764	291	645,055	17,8
Limpopo	152,261	-1	152,260	96	152,356	4,2
Mpumalanga	186,746	0	186,746	156	186,902	5,2
North West	187,302	1	187,303	143	187,446	5,2
Northern Cape	107,340	0	107,340	43	107,383	3,0
Western Cape	630,692	0	630,692	263	630,955	17,4
Total	3,622,210	0	3,622,210	1,752	3,623,962	100,0

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 8.0%, which is lower than yesterday (8.9%). The 7-day average is 9.2% today, which is lower than yesterday (9.4%)

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 20 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	226,291	38,927	2,169
Public	407	273,228	61,554	2,527
TOTAL	666	499,519	100,481	4,696