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SA Reports 18 762 New COVID-19 Cases

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues the monitoring and surveillance of COVID-19 in order to inform the public health response.

Today the institute reports 18,762 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,895,905. This increase represents a 25.5 % positivity rate. A further 215 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 59 621 to date.

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12 842 761 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	7 258 348	57%	45 289	61%
Public	5 584 413	43%	28 420	39%
Total	12 842 761		73 709

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (63%), followed by the Western Cape (9 %). The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on 25 June 2021	Total cases for 25 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	591	204,767	10.8
Free State	523	112,476	5.9
Gauteng	11,777	599,791	31.6
KwaZulu-Natal	997	350,287	18.5
Limpopo	832	72,529	3.8
Mpumalanga	877	91,592	4.8
North West	1073	91,059	4.8
Northern Cape	334	58,086	3.1
Western Cape	1758	315,318	16.6
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	18,762	1,895,905	100.0

THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
An increase of 606 hospital admissions have been reported in the past 24 hours.

The following is a list of COVID-19 hospital admissions that have been reported:

Sector	Facilities Reporting	Admissions to Date	Died to Date	Currently Admitted
Private	257	141,458	23,580	7,292
Public	400	157,103	37,297	3,857
TOTAL	657	298,561	60,877	11,149

VACCINE UPDATE

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