MONTHLY SURVEILLANCE REPORT

This report summarizes data on cases diagnosed and notified in October 2024 using the National Notifiable Medical Conditions Surveillance System (NMCSS).

This report also provides the distribution of case notifications by source i.e., clinical or laboratory notification, as well as merged cases and the number of reported deaths. It tracks the use of the electronic Application (App) for notification, data quality, specifically completeness and timeliness of clinical notifications over time, and back-captured cases notified in October. This report has excluded category 4 NMCs, and multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). The Covid-19 data reported in this report represents routine surveillance notification data.

Key highlights

  • A total of 19 256 cases were notified in October 2024 and most were category 2 conditions.
  • Category 1 cases were reported in a median (IQR) of 0 (0, 1) days.
  • There are increased fever rash (Measles + Rubella) and Bilharzia (schistosomiasis notifications during October).
  • The NMC recorded 561 active users – the highest recorded to date.

    NMC MONTHLY REPORT  (OCTOBER 2024)