{"id":197781,"date":"2021-08-10T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-6-787-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:50:07","slug":"sa-records-6-787-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-6-787-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 6 787 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202108\/stats32.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 6 787 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;540&nbsp;222 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase represents a 21.7% positivity rate,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Department of Health, a further 199 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 75 012 to date.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases &nbsp;are from the Western Cape (29%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (21%).<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape 10%; Mpumalanga, Free State and Northern Cape 6% each; North West 5%, and Limpopo 2% of the new cases, with an increase of 241 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of cases today is lower than [Sunday: 10 008) and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the seven preceding days (11 264). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has increased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 15&nbsp;288 559 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data, South Africa has administered 8&nbsp;621&nbsp;932 COVID-19 vaccines. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 6 787 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;540&nbsp;222 since the outbreak. \u201cThis increase represents a 21.7% positivity rate,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday. &nbsp; According to the National Department of Health, a further 199 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197782,"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-197781","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\/08\/sa-records-6-787-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197781","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=197781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}