{"id":193758,"date":"2021-07-01T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-logs-over-19-500-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:33:13","slug":"sa-logs-over-19-500-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-logs-over-19-500-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA logs over 19 500 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/gautengbeds.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 19&nbsp;506 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases to 1&nbsp;973&nbsp;972.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the increase represents a 27.6% positivity rate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng remains the epicentre, accounting for the majority of new cases (57%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West (7%) provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a further 383 COVID-19 related fatalities have been reported, pushing the death toll to 60&nbsp;647.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increase of 698 hospital admissions have been reported in the past 24 hours,\u201d the institution said, adding that there are now 12&nbsp;893 people who are currently in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 13&nbsp;133 428 tests conducted in both public and private sectors, of which 70&nbsp;593 were performed on Wednesday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, South Africa managed to vaccinate 120&nbsp;172 people the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are now 3&nbsp;026 636 people who have received either the Pfizer or Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are 181&nbsp;521 067 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, 3&nbsp;937 437 deaths, and 2&nbsp;915&nbsp;585 482 administered vaccine doses. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 19&nbsp;506 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases to 1&nbsp;973&nbsp;972. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the increase represents a 27.6% positivity rate.&nbsp; Gauteng remains the epicentre, accounting for the majority of new cases (57%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West (7%) provinces. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193759,"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-193758","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\/07\/sa-logs-over-19-500-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193758","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=193758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}