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SA Reports 685 New COVID-19 Cases

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The NICD reports 685 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,667,560. This increase represents a 5.4% 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 2 deaths and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,052 to date.

23,922,395 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	13,007,662	54.4%	8,186	64.5%
Public	10,914,733	45.6%	4,511	35.5%
Total	23,922,395	100.0%	12,697	100.0%

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (46%), followed by Western Cape (20%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 18% and Mpumalanga accounted for 5% .Eastern Cape, Free State and North West each accounted for 3% respectively. Northern Cape accounted 1% and Limpopo accounted for less than 1% of today’s new cases
The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

Province	Total cases for 03 April 2022	Adjusted numbers after harmonisation	Updated total cases on 03 April 2022	Incident infections for 04 April 2022	Possible reinfections for 04 April 2022	New cases on 04 April 2022	Total cases for 04 April 2022	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	345,335	0	345,335	20	1	21	345,356	9.3
Free State	202,504	0	202,504	18	2	20	202,524	5.4
Gauteng	1,210,873	0	1,210,873	274	41	315	1,211,188	32.5
KwaZulu-Natal	661,303	0	661,303	103	19	122	661,425	17.8
Limpopo	155,881	0	155,881	2	1	3	155,884	4.2
Mpumalanga	193,356	0	193,356	34	2	36	193,392	5.2
North West	193,115	0	193,115	21	1	22	193,137	5.2
Northern Cape	108,953	0	108,953	6	3	9	108,962	2.9
Western Cape	651,634	0	651,634	116	21	137	651,771	17.5
Total	3,722,954	0	3,722,954	594	91	685	3,723,639	100.0

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

The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is (5.4%), and is higher than yesterday (5.3%). The 7-day average is (5.9%) today, and is higher than yesterday (5.7%).

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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 26 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	233,174	39,424	749
Public	407	279,194	62,199	1,100
TOTAL	666	512,368	101,623	1,849