{"id":168449,"date":"2020-10-12T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-17-780-covid-19-deaths\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:34:23","slug":"sa-records-17-780-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-17-780-covid-19-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 17 780 COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 1 575 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the cumulative number of detected cases to 692&nbsp;471 as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, we report 107 more COVID-19 related deaths: 58 from Eastern Cape, 38 from the Free State, 4 from KwaZulu-Natal, 6 from Gauteng, and 1 from Western Cape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 17&nbsp;780,\u201d said Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister extended his condolences to the families of the departed and thanked the healthcare workers that treated the deceased patients.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of tests conducted to date is 4 407 441 with 19 270 new tests conducted since the last report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur recoveries now stand at 623 765 which translates to a recovery rate of 90%,\u201d said Mkhize. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 1 575 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the cumulative number of detected cases to 692&nbsp;471 as of Sunday. \u201cRegrettably, we report 107 more COVID-19 related deaths: 58 from Eastern Cape, 38 from the Free State, 4 from KwaZulu-Natal, 6 from Gauteng, and 1 from Western Cape. \u201cThis brings the total number of [&hellip;]<\/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-168449","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\/168449","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=168449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}