Today the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 832 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 741 1230. This increase represents an 8.4% positivity rate.
Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported. Today, the NDoH reports 3 deaths, and of these, 2 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,147 to date.
24 189 010 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.
| Sector | Total tested | New tested | ||
| Private | 13,159,577 | 54.4% | 6,089 | 61.6% |
| Public | 11,029,433 | 45.6% | 3,795 | 38.4% |
| Total | 24,189,010 | 100.0% | 9,884 | 100.0% |
PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng Province (55%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (21%). Western Cape accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 3%; Free State and North West accounted for 2% respectively; Mpumalanga accounted for 1%; and Limpopo and Northern Cape accounted for 0% respectively of today’s new cases. The cumulative number of cases by province are shown in the table below:
| Province | Total cases for 16 April 2022 | Adjusted numbers after harmonisation | Updated total cases on 16 April 2022 | Incident infections for 17 April 2022 | Possible reinfections for 17 April 2022 | New cases on 17 April 2022 | Total cases for 17 April 2022 | Percentage total |
| Eastern Cape | 346243 | 0 | 346243 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 346266 | 9.3 |
| Free State | 202901 | 0 | 202901 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 202917 | 5.4 |
| Gauteng | 1218858 | 0 | 1218858 | 396 | 64 | 460 | 1219318 | 32.6 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 664753 | 0 | 664753 | 158 | 15 | 173 | 664926 | 17.8 |
| Limpopo | 156072 | 0 | 156072 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 156075 | 4.2 |
| Mpumalanga | 193827 | 0 | 193827 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 193839 | 5.2 |
| North West | 193438 | 0 | 193438 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 193452 | 5.2 |
| Northern Cape | 109089 | 0 | 109089 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 109091 | 2.9 |
| Western Cape | 655217 | 0 | 655217 | 111 | 18 | 129 | 655346 | 17.5 |
| Total | 3740398 | 0 | 3740398 | 729 | 103 | 832 | 3741230 | 100.0 |
THE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE NUMBER OF NEW CASES BY PROVINCE
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is (8.4%), and is higher than yesterday (6.9%). The 7-day average is (7.1%) today, and is higher than yesterday (6.6%). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has increase.
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HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 1 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. The following table is a summary of reported COVID-19 admissions by sector.
| Sector | Facilities Reporting | Admissions to Date | Died to Date | Currently Admitted |
| Private | 259 | 237302 | 39835 | 1073 |
| Public | 407 | 279812 | 62233 | 1010 |
| TOTAL | 666 | 517114 | 102068 | 2083 |
VACCINE UPDATE
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