{"id":193189,"date":"2021-06-25T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-16-078-new-covid-19-cases-148-deaths\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T06:42:50","slug":"sa-records-16-078-new-covid-19-cases-148-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-16-078-new-covid-19-cases-148-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 16 078 new COVID-19 cases, 148 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202106\/covid-19_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 cases continue to rise, with 16 078 new infections reported on Thursday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng remains the epicentre, accounting for the majority of 9 521 new cases (59%), followed by 1 912 in the Western Cape (12%).<\/p>\n<p>According to the public health institution, this surge represents a 24.5% positivity rate, pushing the country\u2019s caseload to 1 877&nbsp;143.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 59 406 have lost their lives to COVID-19 after 148 more fatalities were recorded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increase of 607 hospital admissions have been reported in the past 24 hours,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are now 10 736 ill patients receiving treatment in hospitals for Coronavirus across the country out of the 141 910 people who are currently infected.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NICD, of these 7 100 are admitted at private health institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 12 769 052 test of which 65 631 were conducted the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 115 016 COVID-19 jabs were administered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 2 550&nbsp;248.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation, there are now 179 241 734 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, 3 889 723 deaths and 2 624 733 776 administered jabs. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 cases continue to rise, with 16 078 new infections reported on Thursday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). Gauteng remains the epicentre, accounting for the majority of 9 521 new cases (59%), followed by 1 912 in the Western Cape (12%). According to the public health institution, this surge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193190,"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-193189","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\/sa-records-16-078-new-covid-19-cases-148-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189","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=193189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}