{"id":208471,"date":"2021-11-15T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/262-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2021-11-15T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:54:22","slug":"262-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/262-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"262 new COVID-19 cases reported in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/vaccin4_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 262 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;925 939.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says the increase represents a 1.1% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>A further eight COVID-19 related deaths have been reported bringing the total fatalities to 89 484 to date.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, 18&nbsp;917 933 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the public sector, 8&nbsp;722 917 tests were conducted, while 10&nbsp;195 016 were conducted by the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (48%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 15%.<\/p>\n<p>Western Cape accounted for 11%, Free State accounted for 8%, Northern Cape accounted for 6%, Eastern Cape 4%, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 3% respectively and Limpopo accounted for 1%.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of new cases by province are Gauteng with 126; Free State&nbsp;with 20; Mpumalanga with 8; Eastern Cape with 11; Western Cape with 30; Limpopo with 3; Northern Cape with 17; KwaZulu-Natal with 39 and the North West with 8. &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 262 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;925 939. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says the increase represents a 1.1% positivity rate. A further eight COVID-19 related deaths have been reported bringing the total fatalities to 89 484 to date. According to the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208472,"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-208471","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\/262-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-sa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208471","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=208471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}