This report summarizes data on cases diagnosed and notified from August 2026 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 August 2026. 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 15 228 cases were notified to the NMCSS in August, of which 1 196 were back-captured.
• At least 13.3% (351/2 647) of category 1 notifications were successfully linked by matching clinical notifications to their corresponding laboratory results.
• There were six cases of Mpox notified in August. All are still alive.
• Overall, Category 1 NMCs were reported within a median of less than a day (IQR: 0-1 days).
• The completeness rate for patient address was 97.5% and 57.6% for patient national identification number.
• The hospitalisation form was incomplete for the majority of eligible cases (n=646; 81.8%).

NMC MONTHLY REPORT  (AUG 2026)