To help deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries like Kenya and South Africa have already mobilised community health workers. File picture: Reuters
Cape Town - South Africa registered 1 649 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with two related deaths occurring in the past 24 - 48 hours.
“Today the institute reports 1 649 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 640 162,“ said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in a statement released on Sunday.
The NICD indicated that this increase represents a 8.1% positivity rate.
There has been an ongoing audit exercise conducted across all of South Africa’s nine provinces to address a backlog of cases and deaths, the Department of Health said in a statement last month.
“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 eight deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 96 993 to date,” the NICD added.
The institute said 22 677 323 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng which accounted for 35% of cases. This is followed by Western Cape (22%).
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 14%. Mpumalanga accounted for 9%, Free State and North West each accounted for 5% respectively. Limpopo accounted for 4%; Eastern Cape accounted for 3%; and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today’s new cases.
A total of 3560 vaccines doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
Gauteng administered 1130 vaccine doses, KwaZulu-Natal administered 845 vaccine doses, Western Cape 102 vaccine doses, Eastern Cape 54 vaccine doses, Limpopo 196 doses, Free State 40 vaccine doses, Mpumalanga 222 vaccine doses, North West 868 doses and Northern Cape 103 vaccine doses.
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