National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirms total of 1 712 939 cases of Coronavirus COVID-19

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports that 8 881 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, which represents a 16.5% positivity testing rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 712 939.

11 985 750 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.

Sector Total tested New tested
PRIVATE 6,760,445 56% 34,118 63%
PUBLIC 5,225,305 44% 19,614 37%
Total 11,985,750   53,732  

The increase number of tests and cases, and increased positivity are all evidence of the predicted third surge in COVID-19 cases, and not artifacts of data loading or increased laboratory turn-around times.

Provincial breakdown

The majority of new cases today are from the Gauteng province (58%), followed by the Western Cape (9%) province.

The cumulative number of cases by province is shown below:

Province New cases on 09 June 2021 Total cases for 09 June 2021 Percentage total
Eastern Cape 253 199,165 11.6
Free State 620 105,411 6.2
Gauteng 5,111 484,116 28.3
KwaZulu-Natal 537 341,871 20.0
Limpopo 229 66,642 3.9
Mpumalanga 363 84,510 4.9
North West 650 79,982 4.7
Northern Cape 335 53,433 3.1
Western Cape 783 297,809 17.4
Unknown 0 0 0.0
Total 8,881 1,712,939 100.0


Hospital admissions

There was an increase of 1,150 admissions in the past 24 hours, the largest increase being in Gauteng province with 587 new admissions. There were 135 additional in-hospital deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

A summary of reported COVID-19 hospital admissions is shown below:

Sector Facilities Reporting Admissions 

 

to Date

Died to Date Currently Admitted
Private 253 130,361 21,463 4,746
Public 396 150,295 35,884 2,448
TOTAL 649 280,656 57,347 7,194

Vaccine update

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