{"id":209133,"date":"2021-11-22T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-687-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T07:32:24","slug":"sa-records-687-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-687-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 687 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/covid-19testdrandpatient.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 687 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the majority of which were reported in Gauteng.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), of the new infections, 545 were logged in Gauteng, followed by 32 in the North West, 31 in KwaZulu-Natal and 23 in the Western Cape.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NICD said the proportion of positive new cases is 3.4%, which is higher than the 2.8% that was recorded on Saturday, while the seven-day average had also increased from the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are now 2 929 862 confirmed infections since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, two more people lost their lives to COVID-19, pushing the official death toll to 89 574 to date.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, 13 patients were admitted to hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery rate is sitting at 96.3% after 2 821 141 people beat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the country administered 11 083 new COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, 2 034 of which were given to children. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The data reveals that there are now 24 646 053 distributed jabs to 16 223 469 people to date.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Department of Health has fully vaccinated 13 876 443 or 34.6% of the adult population since the start of the inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 19 November 2021, there have been 255 324 963 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 127 696 deaths reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 687 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the majority of which were reported in Gauteng.&nbsp; According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), of the new infections, 545 were logged in Gauteng, followed by 32 in the North West, 31 in KwaZulu-Natal and 23 in the Western Cape.&nbsp; &nbsp; The NICD said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209134,"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-209133","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-687-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209133","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=209133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}