{"id":195435,"date":"2021-07-19T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-detects-11-215-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-07-19T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:05:05","slug":"sa-detects-11-215-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-detects-11-215-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA detects 11 215 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/covid191_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 11 215 new COVID-19 cases as well as 183 deaths on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the latest infections translate to a 29.3% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>This means the country now has 2 295 095 laboratory-confirmed cases since the outbreak, while the death toll stands at 66 859.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng remains the epicentre after recording 39% of the new cases, followed by Western Cape 19%.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Limpopo and Mpumalanga each accounted for 9%, 7% in KwaZulu-Natal and North West, 5% in the Eastern Cape, 3% in Free State, and 2% in the Northern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>The public health institution noted that the number of cases is less than the 14&nbsp;701 recorded on Saturday and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the seven days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seven-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the number of infections is dropping, hospital admissions have increased by 400 in the past 24 hours, which pushes the number of patients who are currently admitted to 16&nbsp;819.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Health Department, there are now 5&nbsp;095&nbsp;013 vaccines administered of which 16&nbsp;351 were distributed in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 16 July, there have been 188&nbsp;655 968 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4&nbsp;067 517 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO). \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 11 215 new COVID-19 cases as well as 183 deaths on Sunday. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the latest infections translate to a 29.3% positivity rate. This means the country now has 2 295 095 laboratory-confirmed cases since the outbreak, while the death toll stands at 66 859. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195436,"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-195435","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-detects-11-215-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195435","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=195435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}