South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 infections continue to increase, with Gauteng experiencing a greater surge than the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has since urged Gauteng citizens to adhere to the non-pharmaceutical interventions, as the country recorded 5 782 new infections.<\/p>\n
The department said on Wednesday that the country\u2019s positivity rate now stands at 12.7%.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be monitoring this increase in positivity rate to see if it sustains and meanwhile urge all citizens to remain vigilant and adhere to non-pharmaceutical interventions, even if vaccinated,\u201d the Minister pleaded.<\/p>\n
The additional cases have taken the number of detected infections to 1 675 013.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the country recorded 110 more COVID-19 deaths, which pushes the tally to 56 711.<\/p>\n
However, the slightly high daily death toll is due to the mortality audits, which dates back to November 2020.<\/p>\n
Of these fatalities, 54 are from Gauteng, 16 from the North West, 11 from Limpopo and Free State, seven from the Northern Cape, four from KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga and three from the Western Cape.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the health care workers who treated the deceased patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition, the recovery rate sits at 93.5% after 1 565 684 patients recuperated. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe cumulative total of tests conducted to date is 11 713 400 with 45 484 new tests recorded since the last report.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister said there had been 1 117 569 people vaccinated in South Africa.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation, there are now 170 812 850 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 3 557 586 deaths and 1 581 509 628 administered vaccine doses. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 infections continue to increase, with Gauteng experiencing a greater surge than the rest of the country. Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has since urged Gauteng citizens to adhere to the non-pharmaceutical interventions, as the country recorded 5 782 new infections. The department said on Wednesday that the country\u2019s positivity rate now stands […]<\/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-190907","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\/190907","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=190907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}