This report summarizes data on cases diagnosed and notified from July 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 July 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 10 744 cases were notified to the NMCSS in July, of which 1 048 were back-captured.
• At least 16.8% (255/1 514) of category 1 notifications were successfully linked by matching clinical notifications to their corresponding laboratory results.
• There were two confirmed cholera cases; both patients are alive.  
• In July, the agricultural or stock remedy poisoning case fatality rate (CFR) was 13.9% (14/101).
• Overall, Category 1 NMCs were reported within a median of less than a day (IQR: 0-1 days).
• NMCSS data completeness rates were above 90% for patient address and above 50% for national identification number.

NMC MONTHLY REPORT  (Jul 2026)