{"id":212145,"date":"2021-12-22T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-over-15-400-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:34:57","slug":"sa-records-over-15-400-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-over-15-400-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records over 15 400 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa has recorded 15 424 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal remains the hardest-hit province after recording 4 009 new infections.<\/p>\n

The province is followed by 3 324 cases in the Western Cape, 3 316 in Gauteng and 1 442 in the Eastern Cape, while the rest of the provinces recorded less than 1 000 additional cases each.<\/p>\n

The latest statistics represents a 27.6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n

In addition, 35 more people lost their lives to the virus.<\/p>\n

This means there have been 3 332 008 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in South Africa and 90 488 people who have died, government figures show.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 9 023 patients are currently receiving hospital treatment, with 633 being admitted in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Health, 64 928 new vaccine jabs were distributed in the past 24 hours, 51 892 of which were given to adults.<\/p>\n

This pushes the total number of administered vaccines to 27 669 950.<\/p>\n

So far, there are 15 428 274 or 38.5% adults who are fully jabbed.  <\/p>\n

The latest statistics show that 861 730 Pfizer doses have been given to children between the ages of 12 and 17.<\/p>\n

Globally, as of 21 December 2021, there have been 274 628 461 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 358 978 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n

Global view<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to WHO, between 13 and 19 December, the global number of new cases remained similar to those reported during the previous week.<\/p>\n

However, the weekly incidence of deaths decreased by 9%.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonetheless, this corresponds to over 4.1 million new cases and just under 45 000 new deaths,\u201d the organisation said.<\/p>\n

Africa continued to report the largest increase in new cases in the last week (53%), followed by the Western Pacific Region (12%).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the African region, was the only region to report an increase in the number of new weekly deaths (15%).<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States (725 750 new cases, 12% decrease), the United Kingdom (507 984 new cases, 45% increase), France (358 175 new cases, 7% increase) and Germany (283 673 new cases, 19% decrease).<\/p>\n

Of the 1 051 598 sequences globally, 1 009 253 (96%) were Delta and 16 988 (1.6%) were Omicron, while the other circulating variants accounted for less than 1%. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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