NICD reports 15K new Covid-19 cases

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National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has recorded yet another five digits Covid-19 infection, just over 15K.

“Today the institute reports 15,036 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,928,897.”

“This increase represents a 26.9 % positivity rate. A further 122 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 59 900 to date” said NICD.

This is also as the country enters into alert level 4 lockdown as of today as per instruction by President Ramaphosa.

12 968 748 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	7 332 088	57%	34 211	61%
Public	5 636 660	43%	21 709	39%
Total	12 968 748		55 920

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN

The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (66%), followed by the Western Cape (9%). The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on 27 June 2021	Total cases for 27 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	326	205,545	10.7
Free State	375	113,317	5.9
Gauteng	9,858	620,956	32.2
KwaZulu-Natal	763	351,916	18.2
Limpopo	732	74,151	3.8
Mpumalanga	621	92,914	4.8
North West	854	93,071	4.8
Northern Cape	197	58,537	3.0
Western Cape	1,310	318,490	16.5
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	15036	1,928,897	100.0