{"id":202516,"date":"2021-09-20T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/new-covid-19-infections-on-a-downward-trend\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:14:58","slug":"new-covid-19-infections-on-a-downward-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/new-covid-19-infections-on-a-downward-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 infections on a downward trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202109\/stats37.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says the country is experiencing a sustained downward trend in new COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the country recorded 2 281 new laboratory confirmed cases, with 58 new COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>There were 79 new hospitalisations as a result of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of cases\u2026 is lower than yesterday and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the seven preceding days. The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The institute said the new cases represent a positivity rate of 7.4%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of new cases\u2026 are from KwaZulu-Natal (518), followed by Western Cape (390). Northern Cape (309) and Eastern Cape (321), Gauteng Province accounted for (235), Free State accounted for 212; Mpumalanga accounted for 148; North West accounted for 124 and Limpopo accounted for 24 of\u2026 new cases,\u201d the institute said.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases now stand at 2 882&nbsp;630, with 86 174 people succumbing to illnesses related to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>At least 17&nbsp;598 vaccines were administered on Sunday, bringing the total number of vaccines administered to just under 16 million.<\/p>\n<p>Fully vaccinated individuals now account for at least 7.9 million people in the country. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says the country is experiencing a sustained downward trend in new COVID-19 infections. On Sunday, the country recorded 2 281 new laboratory confirmed cases, with 58 new COVID-19 related deaths. There were 79 new hospitalisations as a result of the disease. \u201cThe total number of cases\u2026 is lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202517,"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-202516","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\/new-covid-19-infections-on-a-downward-trend.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202516","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=202516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}