{"id":176225,"date":"2020-12-30T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-9-580-new-covid-19-cases-497-deaths\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:57:37","slug":"sa-records-9-580-new-covid-19-cases-497-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-9-580-new-covid-19-cases-497-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 9 580 new COVID-19 cases, 497 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">South Africa has recorded 9 580 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the country\u2019s cumulative total to 1 021 451.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A total of 497 more people lost their lives to COVID-19. Of these deaths, 137 were in the Eastern Cape, Free State 3, Gauteng 68, KwaZulu-Natal 114, Limpopo 13, Mpumalanga 2, Northern Cape 2 and Western Cape 158.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis brings the total to 27 568 deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the health care workers who treated the deceased,\u201d said Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cumulative numbers of cases in the Eastern Cape are 168 090, Free State 61 974, Gauteng 278 516, KwaZulu-Natal 188 782, Limpopo 23 356, Mpumalanga 35 511, North West 38 957, Northern Cape 24 974 and Western Cape 201 291.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A cumulative 6 500 482 tests have been conducted with 31 457 tests completed since the last report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The country\u2019s recoveries currently stand at 858 456. This represents a recovery rate of 84%. &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 9 580 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the country\u2019s cumulative total to 1 021 451. A total of 497 more people lost their lives to COVID-19. Of these deaths, 137 were in the Eastern Cape, Free State 3, Gauteng 68, KwaZulu-Natal 114, Limpopo 13, Mpumalanga 2, Northern Cape 2 and Western [&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-176225","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\/176225","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=176225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}