{"id":215940,"date":"2022-02-08T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-detects-1-228-new-covid-19-infections-with-eight-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T08:15:19","slug":"sa-detects-1-228-new-covid-19-infections-with-eight-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-detects-1-228-new-covid-19-infections-with-eight-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA detects 1 228 new COVID-19 infections, with eight deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202202\/testtubes2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa conducted 16 067 COVID-19 tests in the past 24 hours, of which 1 228 were positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this means the positivity rate now stands at 7.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng accounted for 41% or 498 new cases recorded, followed by 166 in Mpumalanga, 155 in the Western Cape and 145 in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the rest of the provinces reported less than 100 additional infections, pushing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 625 190 since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Department of Health has registered 186 further fatalities, of which eight people succumbed to the respiratory disease in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the department said the official death toll has risen to 96 021.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics also show that there are 4 585 patients who are currently receiving hospital care for COVID-19, of which 78 were admitted on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the country administered 60 618 COVID-19 vaccine doses, pushing the total number of distributed jabs to 30 255 366.<\/p>\n<p>The department said there are now 18 662 243 or 46.89% adults who are fully jabbed in the country, while 1 308 999 vaccine doses have been given to children aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 7 February 2022, there have been 394 381 395 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 735 179 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa conducted 16 067 COVID-19 tests in the past 24 hours, of which 1 228 were positive. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this means the positivity rate now stands at 7.6%. Gauteng accounted for 41% or 498 new cases recorded, followed by 166 in Mpumalanga, 155 in the Western Cape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215941,"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-215940","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-detects-1-228-new-covid-19-infections-with-eight-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215940","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=215940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}