{"id":213124,"date":"2022-01-10T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-over-4-400-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:15:34","slug":"sa-records-over-4-400-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-over-4-400-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records over 4 400 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202201\/stats52.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) says South Africa recorded at least 4 482 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the cumulative number of cases to 3 526 054.<\/p>\n<p>A further 82 deaths as a result of complications related to the virus have also been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of people who have died due to complications related to the virus to 92&nbsp;453.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal recorded more than 1 000 new cases each, with 1 150 in the Western Cape and 1 037 in KZN.<\/p>\n<p>Limpopo recorded the lowest number of new cases at 143, followed by Mpumalanga with 159 and the North West with 172.<\/p>\n<p>In the Free State, 231 more cases have been reported, 251 in the Nothern Cape and 373 in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase represents a 17.6% positivity rate. The proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 17.6%, which is lower than yesterday (19.0%). The 7-day average is 19.8% today, which is lower than yesterday [20.6%],\u201d the NICD said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A further 80 more hospital admissions due to COVID-19 have been recorded in the country, with more than 8 800 people currently admitted due to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Some 4 056 more COVID-19 vaccinations have been administered in the last 24-hour reporting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, at least 28&nbsp;329&nbsp;788 jabs have been administered. &#8211;<strong>&nbsp;SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) says South Africa recorded at least 4 482 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the cumulative number of cases to 3 526 054. A further 82 deaths as a result of complications related to the virus have also been recorded. This brings the total number of people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213125,"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-213124","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\/2022\/01\/sa-records-over-4-400-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213124","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=213124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}