{"id":192682,"date":"2021-06-21T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/13-155-more-people-test-positive-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:12:48","slug":"13-155-more-people-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/13-155-more-people-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"13 155 more people test positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202106\/covid-19.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa conducted 55 593 COVID-19 tests on Sunday, of which 13&nbsp;155 results came back positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the latest infections represent a 23.7% positivity rate, pushing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1&nbsp;823&nbsp;319.<\/p>\n<p>The NICD said the majority of new cases were recorded in Gauteng after 8&nbsp;640 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The province is followed by the Western Cape with 1&nbsp;166 additional infections, 759 in the North West, 574 in KwaZulu-Natal and 559 in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the pandemic has killed 112 more people, bringing the tally to 58 702 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA further 611 hospital admissions have been reported,\u201d said the public health institute.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NICD, 110&nbsp;725 patients are currently ill with COVID-19, while 9 344 are receiving treatment in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 2&nbsp;141&nbsp;624 people have received their Coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 18 June 2021, there have been 177&nbsp;108 695 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3&nbsp;840 223 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 2&nbsp;378&nbsp;482 776 vaccine doses have been administered. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa conducted 55 593 COVID-19 tests on Sunday, of which 13&nbsp;155 results came back positive. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the latest infections represent a 23.7% positivity rate, pushing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1&nbsp;823&nbsp;319. The NICD said the majority of new cases were recorded in Gauteng after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192683,"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-192682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/13-155-more-people-test-positive-for-covid-19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192682","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=192682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}