{"id":205403,"date":"2021-10-18T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-414-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-10-18T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:20:06","slug":"sa-records-414-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-414-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 414 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202110\/hospitals.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 414 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;916 593 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The increase represents a 1.8% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 18 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the Department of Health said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A further 25 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 88 612 to date.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, said it continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, 18&nbsp;174 247 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the private sector, 9&nbsp;793 716 tests were conducted, while 8&nbsp;380 531 tests were conducted in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from the Western Cape (22%), followed by Gauteng, accounting for 21%.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 16% of the new cases, Free State 13%, Northern Cape 11%, Eastern Cape 7%, North West 5%, Mpumalanga 3% and Limpopo 2%.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of cases by province is: Eastern Cape 31, Northern Cape 45, Limpopo 7, Western Cape 93, Free State 52, KwaZulu-Natal 67, North West 21,&nbsp;Mpumalanga 11 and Gauteng 87. &#8211; <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 414 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;916 593 since the outbreak. The increase represents a 1.8% positivity rate. \u201cThere has been an increase of 18 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the Department of Health said in a statement. A further 25 COVID-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205404,"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-205403","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\/10\/sa-records-414-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205403","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=205403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}