The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports 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 1,415 hospital admissions and 157 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 | 256 | 133,805 | 21,784 | 5,608 |
| Public | 396 | 152,122 | 36,257 | 2,751 |
| TOTAL | 652 | 285,927 | 58,041 | 8,359 |
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