{"id":214903,"date":"2022-01-28T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-detects-4-100-new-covid-19-cases-34-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T06:56:00","slug":"sa-detects-4-100-new-covid-19-cases-34-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-detects-4-100-new-covid-19-cases-34-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA detects 4 100 new COVID-19 cases, 34 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202201\/hospital2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa conducted 38 912 COVID-19 tests on Thursday, with 4 100 new cases, representing a 10.5% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Department of Health reported 160 deaths, of which 34 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), &nbsp;the majority of new cases are from Gauteng after 1 170 tested positive, followed by 620 in KwaZulu-Natal, &nbsp;550 in the Western Cape and 484 in Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>This means the country now has 3 594 499 laboratory-confirmed cases and 94 651 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, hospital admissions have increased by 152 to 5 866 since the last reporting cycle, while South Africa currently has 67 019 active cases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the department vaccinated 71 695 COVID-19 vaccine doses, bringing the total to 29 402 542.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there are now 16 403 387 fully jabbed adults, while 1 195 984 shots have been administered to children aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, government has now distributed 556 205 booster shots, of which 18 117 were distributed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 27 January 2022, there have been 360 578 392 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 5 620 865 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa conducted 38 912 COVID-19 tests on Thursday, with 4 100 new cases, representing a 10.5% positivity rate. Meanwhile, the Department of Health reported 160 deaths, of which 34 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), &nbsp;the majority of new cases are from Gauteng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214904,"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-214903","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-detects-4-100-new-covid-19-cases-34-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214903","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=214903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}