{"id":211784,"date":"2021-12-17T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-reports-24-785-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T06:56:03","slug":"sa-reports-24-785-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-reports-24-785-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 24 785 COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202112\/covidnurses.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa registered 24 785 new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NICD, Gauteng continues to record the highest number of infections after 6 744 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. It is followed by 5 821 cases in KwaZulu-Natal, 4 599 in the Western Cape and 2 248 in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>This means the country now has a tally of 3 255 816 confirmed cases since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the death toll linked to COVID-19 has now risen to 90 262 after 36 more people lost their lives to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the public health institute said there are 7&nbsp;614 people who are currently receiving hospital treatment, with 347 being admitted in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health announced that it has administered 12&nbsp;558 jabs in the last 24 hours, 3 543 of which were given to children.<\/p>\n<p>This pushes the total number of distributed doses to 27 422 495, while 15 290 432 or 38.1% adults are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a total of 814 501 vaccine doses have been given to children between the ages of 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>The department reported that it has already administered 6 845 booster shots to immunocompromised people.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 16 December 2021, there have been 271 376 643 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 324 969 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa registered 24 785 new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Thursday. According to the NICD, Gauteng continues to record the highest number of infections after 6 744 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. It is followed by 5 821 cases in KwaZulu-Natal, 4 599 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211785,"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-211784","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\/12\/sa-reports-24-785-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211784","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=211784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}