{"id":207763,"date":"2021-11-09T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:13:04","slug":"sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 116 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/nurses3.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 116 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the country to 2 924 072.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday, the increase represents a 0.7% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>A further 20 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 89 352 to date.<\/p>\n<p>This as 18 740 830 tests were conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the private sector, 10 100 643 tests were conducted while in the public sector, 8 640 187 tests were conducted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (33%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 20%.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape accounted for 13%; Mpumalanga accounted 8%; Eastern Cape accounted for 7%; Free State, Northern Cape and North West each accounted for 6% respectively; and Limpopo accounted for 2% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there has been an increase of&nbsp;16&nbsp;hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours stood at 102 433. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 116 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the country to 2 924 072. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday, the increase represents a 0.7% positivity rate. A further 20 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 89 352 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207764,"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-207763","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\/11\/sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207763","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=207763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}