NICD confirms just over 24K new Covid-19 cases, highest since January

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SA seems to be fighting a losing battle against Covid-19 as the Health Ministry records highest ever daily cases of 24,270 new cases recorded in 24 hours.

This is said to be the highest ever since January.

The number now brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,019,826. This increase represents a 27.4% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 303 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 61,332 to date.

NICD said that 13,298,239 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	7,515,873	57%	43,236	49%
PUBLIC	5,782,366	43%	45,502	51%
Total	13,298,239		88,738

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (59%), followed by the Western Cape (11%), North West and KwaZulu-Natal (7% each) provinces. The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on02 July 2021	Total cases for02 July 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	652	208,262	10.3
Free State	555	115,771	5.7
Gauteng	14,198	676,524	33.5
KwaZulu-Natal	1,676	357,528	17.7
Limpopo	1,417	78,881	3.9
Mpumalanga	1,187	96,935	4.8
North West	1,687	98,809	4.9
Northern Cape	292	59,618	3.0
Western Cape	2,606	327,498	16.2
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	24,270	2,019,826	100.0