A cumulative total of 633 015 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded in South Africa, with 2 420 new cases identified.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday, the Eastern Cape recorded 86 489 cases, the Free State had 38 869, Gauteng had 21 1 678, KwaZulu-Natal had 11 4034, Limpopo 13 488, Mpumalanga 24 746, North West 25 816, Northern Cape 11 313, and the Western Cape had 10 6582.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe total number of tests conducted to date is 3 747 101 with 20 380 new tests conducted since the last report (Wednesday),\u201d Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mkhize also reported 174 new COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the cumulative total of reported COVID-19 related deaths to 14 563.<\/p>\n
A total of 39 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in KwaZulu-Natal, 50 in Gauteng, 24 in Eastern Cape, 8 in Free State, 17 in Western Cape, 9 in North West and 27 in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe extend our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the health care workers that treated the deceased patients,\u201d Mkhize said.<\/p>\n
The number of recoveries currently stands at 554 887 which translates to a recovery rate of 88%. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A cumulative total of 633 015 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded in South Africa, with 2 420 new cases identified. As of Thursday, the Eastern Cape recorded 86 489 cases, the Free State had 38 869, Gauteng had 21 1 678, KwaZulu-Natal had 11 4034, Limpopo 13 488, Mpumalanga 24 746, North West 25 816, Northern Cape 11 313, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-164577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}