South Africa
#CoronavirusSA: IT problems lead to delays in reporting of new cases─── 10:00 Mon, 13 Dec 2021
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says it was informed in the previous week that information technology (IT) challenges had been experienced by public sector laboratories, “which have resulted in reporting delays”.
The NICD has recorded 37 875 new cases in the last 24 hours reporting cycle.
The institute says 19 840 are retrospective cases and 18 035 are new cases.
The Institute has reiterated its commitment to transparency and honest reporting of Covid-19 cases.
“The NICD is committed to transparent reporting and will continue to update Covid-19 surveillance databases retrospectively as the impacted public laboratories remedy the existing IT difficulties. This will result in retrospective data being processed onto the line list, increasing the cumulative number of tests.”
The latest positive rate is 28.9%.
Please see full statement in link: https://t.co/DglCEAmTQR
— NICD (@nicd_sa) December 12, 2021
In the past 24hours, 18,035 COVID-19 cases have been reported. The total number of confirmed cases is 3,167,497 to date which includes 19,840 retrospective cases (due to late reporting by public labs) & 18,035 new cases. pic.twitter.com/h97Z1ANdE8
An additional 21 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 90 137.
The majority of the new cases come from Gauteng, with 16 716 new cases reported in the 24 hours up to Sunday evening.
There has been an increase of 96 hospital admissions in the last 24 hours, with 5 563 people currently admitted in both private and public health facilities.
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On the vaccine front, 10 602 vaccines were administered on Sunday.
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