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Table 2 Provincial incidence rates of laboratory-confirmed measles during 2015–2020

From: Measles incidence in South Africa: a six-year review, 2015—2020

Year

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Cases

Standard

Narrow

Standard

Narrow

Standard

Narrow

Standard

Narrow

Standard

Narrow

Standard

Narrow

Eastern Cape

0.4

0.4

0.0

0.0

0.9

0.8

0.6

0.2

1.3

0.0

0.9

0.3

Free State

0.4

0.4

0.0

0.0

0.3

0.3

1.7

1.0

1.4

0.3

0.7

0.0

Gauteng

0.5

0.5

0.7

0.7

6.3

6.1

0.9

0.6

0.9

0.5

0.6

0.4

KwaZulu-Natal

0.2

0.1

0.3

0.3

4.8

4.1

1.9

0.7

1.1

0.3

0.3

0.2

Limpopo

0.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.3

0.0

0.0

Mpumalanga

0.0

0.0

0.2

0.2

0.7

0.2

1.1

0.7

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.0

North West

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.3

3.1

2.6

0.8

0.3

7.1

1.6

0.0

0.0

Northern Cape

2.5

2.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2.4

0.0

0.5

0.0

1.5

0.8

Western Cape

0.8

0.8

0.6

0.3

5.4

5.5

1.2

0.3

2.0

1.3

0.1

0.0

South Africa

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

3.6

3.2

1.1

0.5

1.2

0.4

0.4

0.2

  1. Incidence rate per one million population in each province using wide and narrow case definition. The standard definition for measles infection included measles IgM or RT-PCR positive cases with dual positive IgM serology for rubella, while the narrow definition excluded cases with positive rubella IgM serology. Blocks shaded in grey indicate rates of more than one, which are higher than the WHO pre-elimination target