SA records over 12 000 new Covid-19 cases

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NICD reported 12 222 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1, 941,119.  This increase represents a 28.3 % positivity rate.

This is also a further 138 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 60 038 to date.

13 011,903 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
Private	7 355 447	57%	23 359	54%
Public	5 656 456	43%	19 796	46%
Total	13 011 903		43 155

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (69%), followed by the Western Cape (7%). The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on28 June 2021	Total cases for28 June 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	314	205,859	10.6
Free State	331	113,648	5.9
Gauteng	8,408	629,399	32.4
KwaZulu-Natal	483	352,401	18.2
Limpopo	563	74,729	3.8
Mpumalanga	530	93,432	4.8
North West	560	93,596	4.8
Northern Cape	131	58,663	3.0
Western Cape	902	319,392	16.5
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	12,222	1,941,119	100.0