South Africa now has 1 575 471 confirmed COVID-19 cases, while 54 148 people have died, according to the official figures.<\/p>\n
Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said 1 101 new cases were reported on Sunday, while 24 people lost their lives to the infectious disease.<\/p>\n
The Eastern Cape and Gauteng logged seven deaths each in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The provinces are followed by KwaZulu-Natal and Free State, with four fatalities respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the healthcare workers who treated the deceased,\u201d said Mkhize.<\/p>\n
The recovery rate is still holding steady at 95% after 1 501 185 patients beat COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the country has 20 138 active cases.<\/p>\n
The information is based on the 10 530 979 tests of which 22 469 were performed since the last report.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there have been 146 054 107 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, including 3 092 410 deaths, to date.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of 22 April 2021, a total 899 936 102 vaccine doses have been administered,\u201d WHO added. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa now has 1 575 471 confirmed COVID-19 cases, while 54 148 people have died, according to the official figures. Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said 1 101 new cases were reported on Sunday, while 24 people lost their lives to the infectious disease. The Eastern Cape and Gauteng logged seven deaths each in the last […]<\/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-187199","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\/187199","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=187199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}