The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, reports that 5,552 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, representing in an 18.5% positivity rate. 
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,752,630. NICD reports that the majority of new cases are from the Gauteng province (67%), followed by the Western Cape (8%) and North West (5%) provinces. An increase of 936 hospital admissions and 153 in-hospital deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours.
