{"id":200840,"date":"2021-09-06T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-identifies-5-931-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:54:10","slug":"sa-identifies-5-931-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-identifies-5-931-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA identifies 5 931 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202109\/covid-19.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 5 931 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;819 945.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said this increase represents a 14.5% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 76 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 83,419 to date,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from KwaZulu-Natal (29%), followed by Western Cape (23%).<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Cape accounted for 15%; Free State and Gauteng Province each accounted for 9% respectively; Northern Cape each accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 4% respectively; and Limpopo Province accounted for 1% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of cases today (5 931) is lower than yesterday (8 411) and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the 7 preceding days (7 860). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 111 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 749 709 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the country has to date administered 13&nbsp;454&nbsp;823 vaccines with 18&nbsp;483 of those being in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 24 hours, 14&nbsp;393 Pfizer and 4&nbsp;090 vaccines were administered. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 5 931 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;819 945. In a statement on Sunday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said this increase represents a 14.5% positivity rate. \u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 76 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200841,"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-200840","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\/09\/sa-identifies-5-931-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840","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=200840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}