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SA Reports 9 320 New COVID-19 Cases

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports that 9,320 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, which represents a 16.6% positivity testing rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,739,425.

12,148,854 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below:

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	6,850,763	56%	31,102	55%
Public	5,298,091	44%	25,071	45%
Total	12,148,854		56,173

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (63%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West (6%) provinces. The cumulative number of cases by province is shown below:

Province	New cases on 12 June 2021	Total cases for 12 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	260	199,887	11.5
Free State	418	106,820	6.1
Gauteng	5,902	500,426	28.8
KwaZulu-Natal	372	343,047	19.7
Limpopo	253	67,279	3.9
Mpumalanga	339	85,490	4.9
North West	515	81,603	4.7
Northern Cape	274	54,394	3.1
Western Cape	987	300,479	17.3
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	9,320	1,739,425	100.0

HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

An increase of 435 hospital admissions and 62 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	253	131,837	21,602	5,001
Public	396	151,107	36,051	2,447
TOTAL	649	282,944	57,653	7,448