By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), reports 1,287 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,703,329.
This increase represents a 5.0% 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 11 deaths and of these, 3 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 99,879 to date.
The total number of recoveries stood at 3,588,264 with a recovery rate of 96,9%. South Africa currently has 15,186 active cases.
23,569,125 tests in total have been conducted to date in both public and private sectors.
The total number of vaccines administered in the country so far stands at 33,008,136 as of 19 March.
The majority of the new Covid-19 cases came from Gauteng (470), followed by Western Cape (319) and KwaZulu-Natal (270).
North West (62) then follows, while Free State and Mpumalanga recorded 45 and 39 new cases respectively.
Eastern Cape recorded 34 cases followed by Limpopo (33) and Northern Cape (22) had the lowest cases.