Latest confirmed cases of Covid in SA
8 May 2022
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 5,486 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 841 388. This increase represents a 25.3% positivity rate.
Today, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports 7 deaths and of these, 5 occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,523 to date.
24 675 963 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below.