This report summarizes data on cases diagnosed and notified from April 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 April 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 10 423 cases were notified to the NMCSS from April 2026; 827 were back captured.
• At least 18.6% of the category 1 clinical notifications were matched to laboratory results.
• The majority of the category 1 notifications were measles (n=878, 48%) and malaria (n=550, 30.1%).
• A total of 93 cases of agricultural stock or remedy poisoning were notified; 15 are deceased.
• Overall, it took a median of less than a day (IQR: 0-1 days) to report category 1 NMCs.

NMC MONTHLY REPORT  (April 2026)