{"id":193630,"date":"2021-06-30T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-reports-13-347-new-covid-19-cases-with-226-deaths\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:43:31","slug":"sa-reports-13-347-new-covid-19-cases-with-226-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-reports-13-347-new-covid-19-cases-with-226-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 13 347 new COVID-19 cases, with 226 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A total of 13 347 more people have contracted COVID-19 in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Gauteng accounts for the majority of new cases (67%), followed by the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces (7% each).<\/p>\n

According to the NICD, this means the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases has risen to 1 954 466. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis increase represents a 26.2 % positivity rate,\u201d the public health institute said. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 226 more people lost their lives to COVID-19, pushing the death toll to 60 264.<\/p>\n

There are 154 226 active cases, while 12 559 patients are currently receiving treatment of which 711 were admitted in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

There are now 2 900 666 people who have been vaccinated in South Africa. Of these, 107 762 received their shot on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), to date, there have been 181 176 715 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 3 930 496 deaths.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 2 660 756 547 vaccine doses have been administered as of 28 June.<\/p>\n

Global view<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the WHO\u2019s COVID-19 weekly epidemiological update, the global number of new cases over the past week was over 2.6 million, a similar number compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n

The number of weekly deaths continued to decrease, with more than 57 000 fatalities logged in the past week, a 10% dip compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the lowest weekly mortality figure since those recorded in early November 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, globally, COVID-19 incidence remains very high with an average of over 370 000 cases reported each day over the past week.<\/p>\n

The WHO reported that the cumulative number of infections reported worldwide now exceeds 180 million and the number of deaths is almost 4 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week, the African region recorded a sharp increase in incidence (33%) and mortality (42%) when compared to the previous week.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the Eastern Mediterranean and European regions also recorded a peak in the number of weekly cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll regions, except for the African region, reported a decline in the number of deaths in the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from Brazil (521 298 new cases, 3% increase), India (351 218 new cases, 12% increase), Colombia (204 132 new cases, 5% increase), Russia (134 465 new cases, 24% increase), and Argentina (131 824 new cases, 11% decrease).<\/p>\n

Globally, cases of the Alpha variant have been reported in 172 countries, territories, or areas), Beta in 120 countries, Gamma in 72 countries, and Delta in 96 countries. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A total of 13 347 more people have contracted COVID-19 in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday. Gauteng accounts for the majority of new cases (67%), followed by the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces (7% each). According to the NICD, this means the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193631,"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-193630","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-reports-13-347-new-covid-19-cases-with-226-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193630","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=193630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}