SA sees a 62.62% decline in Covid-19 cases compared to the last 24 hours

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NICD has reported over 60% decline in Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

The Institute reported 26 485 daily on Saturday which went down to 16, 585 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified on Sunday, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2,062,896.

This increase represents a 30.2% positivity rate.

This is also as a further 333 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 61, 840 to date. 

Gauteng still accounts to a big chunk of daily cases now accounting to 34% of the latest reported cases.

13,450,014 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector	Total tested	New tested
PRIVATE	7,588,283	56%	30,752	56%
PUBLIC	5,861,731	44%	24,127	44%
Total	13,450,014		54,879

PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (57%), followed by the Western Cape (11%), and the KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo (7% each) provinces. The following table shows the total number of cases per province:

Province	New cases on04 July 2021	Total cases for04 July 2021	Percentage total
Eastern Cape	458	209,462	10.2
Free State	378	116,698	5.7
Gauteng	9,443	702,083	34.0
KwaZulu-Natal	1,166	360,163	17.5
Limpopo	1,230	81,909	4.0
Mpumalanga	968	99,032	4.8
North West	926	101,096	4.9
Northern Cape	232	60,172	2.9
Western Cape	1,784	332,281	16.1
Unknown	0	0	0.0
Total	16,585	2,062,896	100.0