{"id":199192,"date":"2021-08-20T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus--south-africa-covid19-statistics-for-republic-of-south-africa-20-august-2021?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-08-20T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:13:04","slug":"coronavirus-south-africa-covid-19-statistics-for-republic-of-south-africa-20-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/coronavirus-south-africa-covid-19-statistics-for-republic-of-south-africa-20-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; South Africa: COVID-19 Statistics for Republic of South Africa (20 August 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/bb4a42b14015af9\/600\/418\" alt=\"Republic of South Africa, Department of Health\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As of today the cumulative number of COVID19 cases identified in SA is 2, 666, 964 with 14, 312 new cases reported. Today 289 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 78, 983 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 2, 418, 988 with a recovery rate of 90.7%<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tests conducted: 15, 887, 454<br \/>\nPositive cases: 2, 666, 964<br \/>\nRecoveries: 2, 418, 988<br \/>\nDeaths: 78, 983<br \/>\nNew cases: 14, 312<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic of South Africa, Department of Health.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1407a96a5763133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/1407a96a5763133\" alt=\"Republic of South Africa, Department of Health\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/1407a96a5763133\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today the cumulative number of COVID19 cases identified in SA is 2, 666, 964 with 14, 312 new cases reported. Today 289 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 78, 983 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 2, 418, 988 with a recovery rate of 90.7% Tests conducted: 15, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199193,"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":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-199192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coronavirus-south-africa-covid-19-statistics-for-republic-of-south-africa-20-august-2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199192","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=199192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}