{"id":194747,"date":"2021-07-12T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-16-302-new-covid-19-cases-with-151-deaths\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:55:04","slug":"sa-records-16-302-new-covid-19-cases-with-151-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-16-302-new-covid-19-cases-with-151-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 16 302 new COVID-19 cases, with 151 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/ppe_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 infections continue to rise with 16 302 new cases recorded on Sunday, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 195 599.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the number of additional cases is lower than 21&nbsp;610 that was logged on Saturday and less than the average number of new cases per day over the seven preceding days.<\/p>\n<p>It said 151 more people lost their lives to the respiratory disease, pushing the death toll 64&nbsp;289.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng remains the epicentre, with 52% of the new cases recorded in the province, followed by the Western Cape with 12%.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 9%, while Limpopo and Mpumalanga both accounted for 7%.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the North West accounted for 6%, Eastern Cape 3%, Free State 2%, and Northern Cape 1%.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 13 901 847 tests conducted in both public and private sectors, of which 53 653 were performed in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 9 July 2021, there have been 185&nbsp;291 530 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4&nbsp;010 834 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 infections continue to rise with 16 302 new cases recorded on Sunday, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 195 599. However, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the number of additional cases is lower than 21&nbsp;610 that was logged on Saturday and less than the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194748,"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-194747","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-16-302-new-covid-19-cases-with-151-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194747","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=194747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}