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SA Reports 8 436 New COVID-19 Cases

Cuban Health Specialists arriving in South Africa to curb the spread of COVID-19. Photo Credit: GCIS

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has reported that 8,436 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, representing in an 17,8% positivity rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,761,066. For more detailed information, visit the GIS Dashboard.

12,270,842 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below:

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	6,915,728	56%	21,958	46%
Public	5,355,114	44%	25,436	54%
Total	12,270,842		47,394

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (64%), followed by the Western Cape (7%), North West (6%), Free State (6%) and KwaZulu-Natal (5%). The cumulative number of cases by province is shown below:

Province	New cases on 15 June 2021	Total cases for 15 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	370	200,517	11.4
Free State	464	107,897	6.1
Gauteng	5,433	514,486	29.2
KwaZulu-Natal	442	344,078	19.5
Limpopo	143	67,732	3.8
Mpumalanga	237	86,170	4.9
North West	523	82,878	4.7
Northern Cape	215	55,110	3.1
Western Cape	609	302,198	17.2
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	8,436	1,761,066	100.0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

An increase of 434 hospital admissions 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	256	133,805	21,784	5,608
Public	396	152,122	36,257	2,751
TOTAL	652	285,927	58,041	8,359