{"id":212454,"date":"2021-12-28T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T07:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/covid-19-positivity-rate-drops\/"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T07:50:51","slug":"covid-19-positivity-rate-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/covid-19-positivity-rate-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 positivity rate drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202112\/stats48.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded at least 3 782 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24-hour reporting cycle, with 15 more fatalities reported.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of infections to&nbsp;3 417 318, with the national death toll reaching 90&nbsp;829.<\/p>\n<p>There were 150 more hospitalisations due to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the majority of new cases were recorded in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of new cases today are from KwaZulu-Natal (1 007), followed by Gauteng (841).&nbsp; Western Cape accounted for 645 new cases, Eastern Cape 522, Mpumalanga 264, Free State 185, Limpopo 132, North West 120 and Northern Cape 66,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The institute also reported a drop in the national positivity rate, which fell from 27.2% on Sunday to 22% on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 7-day average is 27.4% today, which is lower than yesterday (28.5%). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 2884 vaccines were administered over the past 24 hours, with a cumulative 27&nbsp;807&nbsp;355 administered.&nbsp; \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded at least 3 782 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24-hour reporting cycle, with 15 more fatalities reported. This brings the total number of infections to&nbsp;3 417 318, with the national death toll reaching 90&nbsp;829. There were 150 more hospitalisations due to the virus. According to the National Institute for Communicable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212455,"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-212454","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\/covid-19-positivity-rate-drops.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212454","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=212454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}