Thread by @rid1tweets

Provincial update #COVID19 in South Africa 🇿🇦

Here's a look at the key metrics of case incidence and test positivity rate per province in South Africa 📊

Quite a lot going on between the provinces, so I'll make this a thread 👇

Let's start with good news!

Northern Cape and Free State showing promising signs of a decline. Both are still at very high case incidence rates,so certainly not out of the woods yet 📉

NC case incidence rose up to 1.5 times previous peak.
FS went up to 90% of 2nd wave's peak 🌄

Gauteng is most concerning at the moment 🚩

Average of 2,531 cases/day over the past week; 52% of total cases in SA ⬆️

Cases in GP currently doubling every 2 weeks 📈

Hospital admissions also increasing, up +30% week-on-week. More deaths being reported now too ⚠️

Western Cape cases starting to increase faster now too! 401 cases/day over past week, up 31% week-on-week. Case incidence up to 12% of it's 2nd wave peak 📈

Mpumalanga also rising, cases up 19% compared to a week ago. Case incidence now up to 19% of it's previous peak 📈

Limpopo, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu Natal still at low case incidence rates, however all are increasing sharply ⬆️

Limpopo most concerning of these, with cases up 81% week-on-week 🚩

Eastern Cape up 41% and KwaZulu Natal up 26% 📈

Test positivity rates per province in South Africa confirm the trend in cases shown above 📊

NC down slightly but still high at 22% 📉
FS, NW, GP, MP, and LP all above 10% 🚩
WC above 5% and EC approaching 5% 📈