{"id":216058,"date":"2022-02-09T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-logs-close-to-3-000-covid-19-cases-in-the-past-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:35:47","slug":"sa-logs-close-to-3-000-covid-19-cases-in-the-past-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-logs-close-to-3-000-covid-19-cases-in-the-past-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"SA logs close to 3 000 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa\u2019s COVID-19 caseload has risen by 2 824 in the past 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 8.2%, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n

This means the country now has a total number of 3 628 014 laboratory-confirmed cases since the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Gauteng continues to account for the highest number of daily infections after 997 people have been confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n

The province is followed by 462 cases in KwaZulu-Natal, 425 in the Western Cape and 216 in Limpopo, while the rest of the provinces reported less than 100 cases.<\/p>\n

In addition, there are 268 latest fatalities due to COVID-19, of which 20 were logged in the past 24 to 48 hours, pushing the official death toll to 96 289.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, data shows that the hospital admissions have increased by 101 to 4 502 since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health administered 65 499 COVID-19 vaccine doses, bringing the total to 30 325 638 to date.<\/p>\n

According to the department, the country now has 16 637 053 fully jabbed adults, while 1 322 615 doses have been given to children from 12 to 17 years old.<\/p>\n

The statistics also show that the country has now distributed 704 148 booster shots.<\/p>\n

Globally, as of 8 February 2022, there have been 396 558 014 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 5 745 032 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO)<\/p>\n

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

According to the WHO, during the week of 31 January to 6 February 2022, the number of new COVID-19 cases decreased by 17% compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, deaths increased by 7%.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross the six WHO regions, over 19 million new cases and just under 68 000 new deaths were reported,\u201d the agency\u2019s weekly epidemiological update stated.<\/p>\n

At the regional level, the WHO said the Eastern Mediterranean region reported a peak of 36% in the number of new weekly cases while all other regions reported decreases.<\/p>\n

In addition, the number of new weekly deaths continued to increase in the South-East Asia (67%) and Eastern Mediterranean (45%), while the number remained similar to that of the previous week in the region of the Americas and Europe and decreased in the African (14%) and Western Pacific regions (5%).<\/p>\n

The highest number of new cases were reported from the United States (1 874 006 new cases, 50% decrease), France (1 738 189 new cases, 26% decrease), Germany (1 285 375 new cases, 22% increase), Brazil (1 241 025 new cases, similar to the previous week\u2019s figures) and India (1 095 616 new cases, a 41% decrease).<\/p>\n

The highest number of new deaths were reported from the United States (14 090 new deaths, 15% decrease), India (7 888 new deaths, 69% increase), Russia (4 686 new deaths, similar to the previous week\u2019s figures), Brazil (4 610 new deaths, 39% increase) and Mexico (2 910 new deaths, 48% increase).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current global epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 is characterised by the continued rapid global spread of the Omicron variant,\u201d the WHO said.<\/p>\n

In addition, all other variants, including variants of concern t including Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta and variants of interest, Lambda and Mu continue to decline in all six WHO regions. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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