South Africa has recorded 772 new COVID-19 cases, which pushes the overall number to 651 521.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 142 more COVID-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Of the additional fatalities, 67 are from Limpopo, 19 from Mpumalanga, 16 from KwaZulu-Natal, 13 from the Western Cape, 12 from Gauteng, 11 from the Northern Cape and four from the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n
This brings the death toll to 15 641 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe extend our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers who treated the deceased patients,\u201d said Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize.<\/p>\n
The recovery rate stands at 89.5% after 583 126 patients recovered.<\/p>\n
Gauteng now has 215 481 cases since the outbreak, KwaZulu-Natal 116 674, Western Cape 108 537 and Eastern Cape 87 514.<\/p>\n
The Free State has 42 255 cases, North West 27 321, Mpumalanga 25 860, Limpopo 14 263 and Northern Cape 13 616.<\/p>\n
The information is based on the almost four million tests conducted, 11 603 of which were performed in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Globally, the World Health Organisation has reported 29 155 581 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 926 544 deaths. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa has recorded 772 new COVID-19 cases, which pushes the overall number to 651 521. Meanwhile, 142 more COVID-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday. Of the additional fatalities, 67 are from Limpopo, 19 from Mpumalanga, 16 from KwaZulu-Natal, 13 from the Western Cape, 12 from Gauteng, 11 from the Northern Cape and four […]<\/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-165912","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\/165912","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=165912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}