{"id":215378,"date":"2022-02-02T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-3-085-cases-23-deaths-in-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:56:26","slug":"sa-records-3-085-cases-23-deaths-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-3-085-cases-23-deaths-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 3 085 cases, 23 deaths in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa has conducted 35 067 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours, with 3 085 new cases, representing an 8.8% positivity rate.<\/p>\n

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the majority of new cases continue to be recorded in Gauteng after 1 001 people tested positive, followed by 419 infections in KwaZulu-Natal and 427 in the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

This means the country now has 3 608 307 laboratory-confirmed cases since the outbreak.<\/p>\n

In addition, the death toll stands at 95 288 after 195 fatalities were logged, of which 23 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the number of hospital admissions jumped by 103 on Tuesday to 5 194.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Health, government has administered 29 957 898 vaccine doses, of which 69 268 were given on Monday.<\/p>\n

This brings the number of fully vaccinated adults to 16 505 078 or 41.47%, while 1 246 580 jabs have been distributed to children aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the country has administered 611 352 booster shots.<\/p>\n

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

Globally, during the week of 24 to 30 January 2022, the number of new COVID-19 cases remained similar to that reported during the previous week, while the number of new deaths increased by 9%.<\/p>\n

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), over 22 million new cases and over 59 000 new deaths were reported across all its six regions.<\/p>\n

At the regional level, the majority of the new cases were logged in the Western Pacific (37%), the Eastern Mediterranean (24%) and the European (7%) regions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a decrease was reported by the region of the Americas (20%) and South-East Asia (8%), while the number of new cases reported in Africa remained similar to the previous week.<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new infections were recorded in the United States (3 279 226 new cases, a 34% decrease), France (2 357 129 new cases, similar to the previous week\u2019s figures), India (1 855 258 new cases, a 12% decrease), Brazil (1 283 024 new cases, a 56% increase), and Germany (1 055 768 new cases, a 48% increase).<\/p>\n

In addition, the highest number of new deaths were reported from the United States (13 558 new deaths, a 5% decrease), India (4682 new deaths, a 40% increase), Russia (4616 new deaths, similar to the previous week), Brazil (3321 new deaths, an 88% increase) and Italy (2618 new deaths, a 7% increase).<\/p>\n

Globally, as of 1 February 2022, there have been 376 478 335 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 666 064 deaths, reported to the WHO. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa has conducted 35 067 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours, with 3 085 new cases, representing an 8.8% positivity rate. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the majority of new cases continue to be recorded in Gauteng after 1 001 people tested positive, followed by 419 infections in KwaZulu-Natal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215379,"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-215378","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\/02\/sa-records-3-085-cases-23-deaths-in-24-hours.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215378","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=215378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}