Covid-19

NICD reports 685 new Covid-19 cases

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As South Africa exits the Covid-19 National State of Disaster, a number of new Covid-19 cases still continue to be reported daily recently with the National Institute for Communicable Diseases having reported 685 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,667,560. This increase represents a 5.4% positivity rate.

The Institute said that due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported.

Only 2 deaths were reported and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,052 to date.


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The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (46%), followed by Western Cape (20%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 18% and Mpumalanga accounted for 5% .Eastern Cape, Free State and North West each accounted for 3% respectively. Northern Cape accounted 1%  and Limpopo accounted for less than 1% of today’s new cases
The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:

ProvinceTotal cases for 03 April 2022Adjusted numbers after harmonisationUpdated total cases on 03 April 2022Incident infections for 04 April 2022Possible reinfections for 04 April 2022New cases on 04 April 2022Total cases for 04 April 2022Percentage total
Eastern Cape345,3350345,33520121345,3569.3
Free State202,5040202,50418220202,5245.4
Gauteng1,210,87301,210,873274413151,211,18832.5
KwaZulu-Natal661,3030661,30310319122661,42517.8
Limpopo155,8810155,881213155,8844.2
Mpumalanga193,3560193,35634236193,3925.2
North West193,1150193,11521122193,1375.2
Northern Cape108,9530108,953639108,9622.9
Western Cape651,6340651,63411621137651,77117.5
Total3,722,95403,722,954594916853,723,639100.0
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