South Africa recorded over 3 000 new COVID-19 cases after logging less than 2 000 infections two days in a row. <\/p>\n
According to the latest statistics, there are 3 163 patients who were confirmed to have contracted the virus on Wednesday, which represents a 6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n
This means that there are now 1 482 412 cumulative cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n
In addition, a further 276 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 47 145 to date.<\/p>\n
Of the recent fatalities, 126 are from Gauteng, 34 from KwaZulu-Natal, 33 from the Eastern Cape, 21 from Mpumalanga and 20 from Free State.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, only one death occurred in the Northern Cape. <\/p>\n
The country now has 60 899 active cases, with 20 712 of people who are currently infected, while 9 659 are in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
The Free State has 7 794 active cases, 6 636 in Gauteng, 5 952 in the North West, 3 657 in the Northern Cape, 2 280 in Mpumalanga, 2 180 in Limpopo and 2 029 in Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n
According to Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, there are 1 367 247 who beat COVID-19, representing a recovery rate of 92.7%.<\/p>\n
The information is based on the 8 573 464 test of which 35 195 were performed in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation, there are now 106 797 721 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 2 341 145 deaths, to date. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa recorded over 3 000 new COVID-19 cases after logging less than 2 000 infections two days in a row. According to the latest statistics, there are 3 163 patients who were confirmed to have contracted the virus on Wednesday, which represents a 6% positivity rate. This means that there are now 1 482 412 cumulative […]<\/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-180233","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\/180233","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=180233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}