{"id":193895,"date":"2021-07-02T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/covid-19-cases-soar-by-21-584\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:03:32","slug":"covid-19-cases-soar-by-21-584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/covid-19-cases-soar-by-21-584\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases soar by 21 584"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/covid191.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 21&nbsp;584 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (59%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West (7%) provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng reported 12 806 cases while the Western Cape reported 2&nbsp;447.<\/p>\n<p>This as South Africa battles a third wave of COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the institute reports&nbsp;21 584&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1&nbsp;995 556. This increase represents a&nbsp;28.4%&nbsp;positivity rate,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>A further 382 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 61 029 to date.<\/p>\n<p>Also, 13&nbsp;209 499&nbsp;tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The institute said it has seen an increase of&nbsp;769&nbsp;hospital admissions that have been reported in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Minister of Health, Mmamoloko Kubayi, and a panel of experts are this morning briefing media on the progress of government&#8217;s efforts in the fight against COVID-19, including an update on the national vaccination rollout programme.<\/p>\n<p>The NICD, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, said it will continue monitoring COVID-19 in order to inform the public health response. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 21&nbsp;584 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (59%), followed by the Western Cape (11%) and North West (7%) provinces. Gauteng reported 12 806 cases while the Western Cape reported 2&nbsp;447. This as South Africa battles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193896,"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-193895","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\/covid-19-cases-soar-by-21-584.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193895","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=193895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}