{"id":194067,"date":"2021-07-05T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-16-585-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:23:24","slug":"sa-records-16-585-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-16-585-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 16 585 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/icu3_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 16 585 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 062 896.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase represents a 30.2% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 333 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 61 840 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 13&nbsp;450 014 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng province accounts for the majority of new cases (57%), followed by the Western Cape (11%), and the KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo (7% each) provinces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increase of 384 hospital admissions have been reported in the past 24 hours,\u201d the institute said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa recorded new record high infections for COVID-19 on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s report identified 26 485 new cases with the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases at 2 046 311.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represented a 27.3% positivity rate. A further 175 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 61 507.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the NICD reported 24 270 new COVID-19 cases, with the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases at 2&nbsp;019&nbsp;826.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represented a 27.4% positivity rate. A further 303 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 61 332 to date. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 16 585 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 062 896. \u201cThis increase represents a 30.2% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 333 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 61 840 to date,\u201d the National Institute for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194068,"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-194067","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-records-16-585-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194067","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=194067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}