{"id":215805,"date":"2022-02-07T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-reports-1-752-new-covid-19-cases-eight-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:36:07","slug":"sa-reports-1-752-new-covid-19-cases-eight-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-reports-1-752-new-covid-19-cases-eight-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 1 752 new COVID-19 cases, eight deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202202\/covidtest.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 1 752 new COVID-19 cases and a further 18 deaths, of which eight occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 3 623 962 people in South Africa have contracted the virus and 95 835 patients lost their lives after testing positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Gauteng continues to record the highest number of new infections after 604 residents tested positive on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The province is followed by 291 cases in KwaZulu-Natal, 263 in the Western Cape, while the rest of the provinces registered less than 100 infections each.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the hospital admission went up by 20 to 4 696 in the past 24 hours out of the 47 878 active cases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Department of Health said of the 4 286 patients over 12 who are currently in hospital, 3 086 are unvaccinated, 1 025 are fully jabbed and 175 are partially vaxxed.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s latest figures show that government has administered 3 831 COVID-19 vaccine doses, bringing the total to 30 189 745 since the start of the rollout programme.<\/p>\n<p>The country is now home to 16 589 304 or 41.64% fully jabbed adults, while 1 296 719 doses have been given to adolescents aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 4 February 2022, there have been 386 548 962 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 705 754 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 1 752 new COVID-19 cases and a further 18 deaths, of which eight occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. In total, 3 623 962 people in South Africa have contracted the virus and 95 835 patients lost their lives after testing positive. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215806,"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-215805","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-reports-1-752-new-covid-19-cases-eight-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215805","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=215805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}