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SA Reports 7 657 New COVID-19 Cases

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports that 7,657 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, representing a 17.2 percent positivity rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,747,082.

12,193,414 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below:

Sector	Total tested		New tested
Private	6,877,334	56%	26,571	60%
Public	5,316,080	44%	17,989	40%
Total	12,193,414		44,560

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (64%), followed by the Western Cape (9%) and North West (7%) provinces. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown below:

Province	New cases on 13 June 2021	Total cases for 13 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	155	200,042	11.5
Free State	379	107,201	6.1
Gauteng	4,891	505,322	28.9
KwaZulu-Natal	338	343,389	19.7
Limpopo	171	67,457	3.9
Mpumalanga	283	85,774	4.9
North West	521	82,105	4.7
Northern Cape	256	54,650	3.1
Western Cape	663	301,142	17.2
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	7,657	1,747,082	100.0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

An increase of 632 hospital admissions and 78 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	254	132,355	21,661	5,076
Public	396	151,221	36,070	2,495
TOTAL	650	283,576	57,731	7,571