COVID-19 statistics, South Africa

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Newsnodes	6 Jan 2022, 22:11 South Africa today added a backlog of over 500 COVID-19 deaths. Full statement by South African Health Department: sacoronavirus.co.za
Newsnodes	24 Nov 2021, 19:59 Today South Africa has added a backlog of 18586 cases and 117886 tests as part of a process of including new antigen test codes, source: twitter.com
Newsnodes	2 Dec 2020, 20:52 South Africa has completed revising the test data. They did a small revision and they have published data for the previous days in which no test numbers were released. Source: twitter.com
Newsnodes	30 Nov 2020, 20:36 South Africa has stopped publishing numbers about coronavirus testing. The latest official explanation was that this is due to 'datasets being cleaned'. Source: twitter.com
Newsnodes	18 Oct 2020, 22:16 Still no updates from South Africa, as the South African minister of Health announces he has contracted the coronavirus himself. Source: twitter.com
Newsnodes	24 Apr 2020, 21:19 Test data and test chart have been added for South Africa!
Newsnodes	24 Apr 2020, 20:48 Clarification: South Africa reports on 'people tested'. In the April 18 report they publish both numbers to illustrate the difference (108021 persons vs 123008 samples): sacoronavirus.co.za
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LATEST NEWSNODES DATA

	CONFIRMED CASES
	3,568,900 in total	( +4001) daily average*
	REPORTED DEATHS
	93,707 in total	( +125) daily average*
	PERSONS TESTED
	21,895,771 in total	( +34461) daily average*
test data provided by: Newsnodes, Nono

Latest update: 19 January, 18:00 CET
*) The daily average increase is the average number of new cases/deaths/tests reported in the last 7 days.

COVID VARIANTS

The Omicron (B.1.1.529)-variant* (98%) was the dominant COVID-19 strain in South Africa over the last 4 weeks.
The chart below shows how often a coronavirus variant was detected among sequenced cases over time. The data is meant to give a indication of general trends.

Source: GISAID

For more information about COVID-variants, visit our COVID variant monitor.

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SOUTH AFRICA DATA

Daily reporting time:
~20:30hrs CET

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NEW CONFIRMED CASES PER DAY (SOUTH AFRICA)

Data range: 26 Dec '21 - 19 Jan '225 Mar '20 - 19 Jan '22

NEW DEATHS PER DAY (SOUTH AFRICA)

Data range: 26 Dec '21 - 19 Jan '225 Mar '20 - 19 Jan '22

PERSONS TESTED PER DAY (SOUTH AFRICA)

Data range: 23 Dec '21 - 19 Jan '2228 Mar '20 - 19 Jan '22		© newsnodes.com
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TABLE: COVID-19 DATA FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Below is all historic data provided by Newsnodes. The historic data is a mix of data collected from the World Health Organization, Governments and National Public Health Authorities.

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