The 3 charts below reflect the number of new infections, deaths, and percentage of tests reported per day of the week. The least number of new infections and daily tests conducted were reported on Mondays. The most number of deaths were reported on Tuesdays:
COVID Hospitalisation:
There are 2 organisations that report covid statistics daily in South Africa, the Department of Health (Total Provincial Deaths) and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Hospital Deaths). These charts reflect those statistics.The “Discrepancy” chart shows the difference in the number of deaths, where in-hospital deaths are higher than the total provincial deaths.
On 01 August 2022, the South African Department of Health stopped publishing daily Covid-19 statistics.