COVID-19 Health Media Briefing Presentation

April 28rd 2020

COVID-19: TESTING DATA

The total number of people screened to date is 6 093 502

The total number of tests conducted both in public and private sector is 185 497

Sector Total tested New tested

Private 105 491 57% 2 191 31%

Public 80 006 43% 4 836 69%

Grand Total 185 497 7 027

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 TOTAL CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES : 4996
GAUTENG 1377

WESTERN CAPE 1870

KWAZULU – NATAL 919

EASTERN CAPE 616

FREE STATE 113

LIMPOPO 31

NORTH WEST 29

MPUMALANGA 24

NORTHERN CAPE 17

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 CASE MANAGEMENT

ACTIVE CASES 2830

TOTAL NO OF PATIENTS HOSPITALISED 395

TOTAL NO OF PATIENTS RECOVERED 2073

TOTAL NO OF DEATHS 93

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 SA’s epidemic trajectory – to 27 April
SA compared to countries with the most and least severe advanced epidemic

Log scale

Diagram source: Tulio de Oliveira, Maria Schud &

UKZN CoV Big Data Consortium
The source of samples in the public sector testing for SARS-CoV-
2:passive vs active case finding

Healthcare testing (passive)

16000
Community testing (active) 14439
14000

Note: the total tests each

Number SARS-CoV-2 tests

12000
11096 week = sum of the number
10000
9959 on each bar

8000

6228
6000

4085
4000 3376

1855 1748
2000
713 567
435
8 10 144
0
06 Mar - 12 Mar 13 Mar - 19 Mar 20 Mar - 26 Mar 27 Mar - 02 Apr 03 Apr - 09 Apr 10 Apr - 16 Apr 17 Apr - 21 Apr

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Proportion of NHLS tests that are positive comparing
passive and active testing (by week)
7.0
6.3%
Proportion of SARS-CoV-2 tests positive N=1,854 Community testing (active)
6.0
5.2% Healthcare tests (passive)
N=713
5.0 4.6%
N=567
3.8%
N=3,382 3.2%
4.0 3.5% 3.5%
3.4% 3.4% N=11,165
N=4,084 N=1747
N=9,953 3.1% 2.7%*
N=442 2.9%
N=16,743 N=8,382
N=6,229 2.7%
3.0
N=7,879

2.0
1.4%
N=144

1.0
0.0% 0.0%
N=1 N=10

0.0
6 Mar - 12 Mar 13 Mar - 19 Mar 20 Mar - 26 Mar 27 Mar - 2 Apr 3 Apr - 9 Apr 10 Apr - 16 Apr 17 Apr -23 Apr 24 Apr -27 Apr

Source of data: Kamy Chetty, NHLS

Epidemiological Model – Long Term Projections
 Hotspots
Positive Cases
as at 18th and Number of Positives per Number Screened per 1M Beds per 1k
Province District 19th April 100k Pop Pop Pop Field Hospital Beds
Eastern Cape ec Alfred Nzo District Municipality 0 0,000 19220 1,2
Northern Cape nc John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality 0 0,000 13880 0,9
Limpopo lp Sekhukhune District Municipality 0 0,000 59179 1,0
Western Cape wc Central Karoo District Municipality 0 0,000 0 1,6
Eastern Cape ec Joe Gqabi District Municipality 0 0,000 13521 1,4
Limpopo lp Mopani District Municipality 2 0,162 56663 1,4
KwaZulu Natal kz Harry Gwala District Municipality 1 0,193 16885 2,1
nw Ngaka Modiri Molema District
North West Municipality 2 0,207 32063 1,8
nw Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District
North West Municipality 1 0,208 28547 1,4
KwaZulu Natal kz Zululand District Municipality 2 0,225 18942 1,5
Mpumalanga mp Nkangala District Municipality 4 0,257 25417 1,5
Gauteng gp Sedibeng District Municipality 10 0,283 4212 0,3
Free State fs Lejweleputswa District Municipality 2 0,296 34357 2,0
KwaZulu Natal kz Umzinyathi District Municipality 2 0,349 12195 2,0
nc Zwelentlanga Fatman Mgcawu District
Northern Cape Municipality 1 0,376 23520 1,5
Limpopo lp Vhembe District Municipality 6 0,407 45995 1,2
Mpumalanga mp Gert Sibande District Municipality 5 0,413 25547 1,4
Northern Cape nc Pixley ka Seme District Municipality 1 0,473 238061 0,5
Eastern Cape ec Amathole District Municipality 5 0,500 13276 1,8
Free State fs Fezile Dabi District Municipality 3 0,592 116300 1,5
Free State fs Xhariep District Municipality 1 0,644 139947 0,9
North West nw Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality 5 0,650 61008 5,3

Source: WHO

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 Hotspots Cont…
Eastern Cape ec Oliver Tambo District Municipality 10 0,663 7110 1,8
Limpopo lp Capricorn District Municipality 9 0,668 39364 2,1
Mpumalanga mp Ehlanzeni District Municipality 14 0,804 15793 1,8
Free State fs Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality 7 0,879 93955 1,6
North West nw Bojanala Platinum District Municipality 16 0,917 42879 1,3
KwaZulu Natal kz King Cetshwayo District Municipality 11 1,094 19540 2,5
KwaZulu Natal kz Amajuba District Municipality 8 1,369 6173 2,2
Limpopo lp Waterberg District Municipality 10 1,383 49547 1,7
Western Cape wc West Coast District Municipality 8 1,711 13700 1,1
KwaZulu Natal kz Ugu District Municipality 16 2,015 9205 2,0

Gauteng gp City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality 111 2,099 8311 1,9 1000
Eastern Cape ec Sarah Baartman District Municipality 14 2,640 33282 3,6
Northern Cape nc Namakwa District Municipality 3 2,644 40608 0,7
KwaZulu Natal kz Uthukela District Municipality 21 2,744 18717 1,2
Eastern Cape ec Chris Hani District Municipality 24 2,922 33172 2,5
KwaZulu Natal kz Umkhanyakude District Municipality 21 2,989 7868 1,6
Northern Cape nc Frances Baard District Municipality 12 3,145 52127 3,2
KwaZulu Natal kz uMgungundlovu District Municipality 47 3,984 10131 3,4
Western Cape wc Overberg District Municipality 12 4,030 0 1,0
Gauteng gp West Rand District Municipality 38 4,278 12831 2,2
Western Cape wc Cape Winelands District Municipality 46 4,950 2473 1,7
KwaZulu Natal kz iLembe District Municipality 42 5,889 18655 1,3
Eastern Cape ec Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality 108 8,204 3885 2,9 500
Western Cape wc Garden Route District Municipality 60 9,457 6666 2,1
KwaZulu Natal kz eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality 429 11,287 2494 2,9 1500
Free State fs Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality 89 11,331 67609 5,3
Eastern Cape ec Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality 108 12,497 1113 3,0
wc City of Cape Town Metropolitan
Western Cape Municipality 725 17,340 6593 2,9 1500
gp City of Johannesburg Metropolitan
Gauteng Municipality* 639 17,761 10274 3,7 500
Gauteng gp Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality** 234 23,564 10260 8,5

Source: WHO

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Hotspots cont…

Notes
*City of Joburg Private beds include West Rand
*Ekurhuleni private beds include Sedibeng

Legend (Positive Cases per 100k pop)

Range 0 to 0.5
Range 0.5 to 1
Range 1 to 10
Range Greater than 10

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 Proposed Distribution of the Cuban Brigade
WC GP KZN EC FS MP LP NW NC NDOH TOTAL

Family Physician 18 17 17 12 10 8 8 8 7 0 105

Health Technology 5 5 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 0 30

Epidemiology 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 18

Biostatistics 3 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 21

Public Health 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11
Specialist*

Biotechnologist 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2

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 COVID-19 POSITIVE HEALTH WORKERS
Number of doctors Number of nurses Number of Port Health workers Other Allied Healthworkers Total

Private Public Private Public Private Public Private Public Private Public

EC 2 5 0 2 0 9

FS 8 1 0 5

GP 0 8 38 6 0 8 33 3 71 25

KZN 7 0 82 12 0 0 23 14 112 26

LP 0 3 1 4 0 0 1 7

MP 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 2

NC 0 0 0 0 0 0

NW 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

WC 10 23 0 31 64

NDoH

Total 19 25 123 50 0 8 57 50 195 133

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