Wednesday, 05 January 2022 20:45
Covid-19 Daily Update: SA records 11106 new cases and 110 deaths.
By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 11 106 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 494 696.
This increase represents a 22.2% positivity rate.
The majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape (26% each), followed by Gauteng (19%). Eastern Cape accounted for 11%; Free State accounted for 5%; North West accounted for 4%; Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape each accounted for 3% respectively of today’s new cases.
The proportion of positive new cases/total new tested today is 22.2% which is higher than yesterday (20.1%). The 7-day average is 23.7% today, which is lower than yesterday (24.3%). 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased.
21 394 263 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below:
| Sector | Total tested | New tested | ||
| Private | 11,548,747 | 54% | 28,022 | 56.1% |
| Public | 9,845,516 | 46% | 21,948 | 43.9% |
| Total | 21,394,263 | 49,970 | ||
There has been an increase of 349 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 | 218303 | 38162 | 3282 |
| Public | 407 | 259639 | 59100 | 5605 |
| TOTAL | 666 | 477942 | 97262 | 8887 |
Globally, as of 4 January 2022, there have been 290 959 019 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5 446 753 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation.