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SA Reports 5 552 New Cases

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports that 5,552 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, representing in an 18.5% positivity rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,752,630. For more detailed information, visit the GIS Dashboard.

12,223,448 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below:

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	6,893,770	56%	16,436	55%
Public	5,329,678	44%	13,598	45%
Total	12,223,448		30,034

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (67%), followed by the Western Cape (8%) and North West (5%) provinces. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown below:

Province	New cases on 14 June 2021	Total cases for 14 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	105	200,147	11.4
Free State	228	107,433	6.1
Gauteng	3,720	509,053	29.0
KwaZulu-Natal	247	343,636	19.6
Limpopo	118	67,588	3.9
Mpumalanga	162	85,934	4.9
North West	278	82,355	4.7
Northern Cape	248	54,895	3.1
Western Cape	446	301,589	17.2
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	5,552	1,752,630	100.0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

An increase of 936 hospital admissions and 153 in-hospital deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.

A summary of reported COVID-19 hospital admissions is shown below:

Sector	Facilities Reporting	Admissions to Date	Died to Date	Currently Admitted
Private	255	132,930	21,727	5,220
Public	396	151,582	36,157	2,558
TOTAL	651	284,512	57,884	7,778

VACCINE UPDATE

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