The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.
Today the institute reports 171 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 4,000,631.
The NDoH reports 4 deaths, of which 0 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 101,922 to date.
25,887,017 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.
| Sector | Total tested | New tested | ||
| Private | 14,085,925 | 54.4% | 2,761 | 56.1% |
| Public | 11,801,092 | 45.6% | 2,159 | 43.9% |
| Total | 25,887,017 | 100.0% | 4,920 | 100.0% |
PROVINCIAL BREAKDOWN
The total number of new cases by province is shown in the table below
| Province | New cases on 18 July 2022 | |
| EASTERN CAPE | 4 | |
| FREE STATE | 3 | |
| GAUTENG | 66 | |
| KWAZULU-NATAL | 27 | |
| LIMPOPO | 1 | |
| MPUMALANGA | 8 | |
| NORTH WEST | 2 | |
| NORTHERN CAPE | 2 | |
| WESTERN CAPE | 58 | |
| Total | 171 | |
HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS
There has been an increase of 3 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 | 262 | 249,796 | 40,603 | 480 |
| Public | 407 | 290,359 | 63,487 | 562 |
| TOTAL | 669 | 540,155 | 104,090 | 1,042 |
VACCINE UPDATE
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