{"id":216305,"date":"2022-02-11T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T07:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sas-covid-19-cases-rise-by-3-169\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T07:55:57","slug":"sas-covid-19-cases-rise-by-3-169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sas-covid-19-cases-rise-by-3-169\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s COVID-19 cases rise by 3 169"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202202\/hospitals.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa conducted 36 113 COVID-19 tests in the past 24 hours, of which 3 169 were positive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this represents an 8.8% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows that Gauteng remains the hardest-hit province with 1 003 additional infections recorded, followed by 590 in the Western Cape, 446 in KwaZulu-Natal, 366 in Mpumalanga and 224 in the North West.<\/p>\n<p>This means the country now has 3 634 811 confirmed cases since the outbreak, while the death toll stands at 96 705 after reports that 203 people died from COVID-19 related complications.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the Department of Health, only 12 fatalities took place in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, hospital admissions have increased by 86 to 4 354 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the department is reporting there are 65 941 new COVID-19 vaccine doses, pushing the total to 30 468 125 since the rollout programme kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 16 684 897 or 41.92% adults are fully jabbed, while 1 353 555 vaccine doses have been given to children between 12 and 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics also indicate that 742 378 booster shots have been distributed in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation, as of 10 February 2022, there have been 402 044 502 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, including 5 770 023 deaths. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa conducted 36 113 COVID-19 tests in the past 24 hours, of which 3 169 were positive. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this represents an 8.8% positivity rate. Data shows that Gauteng remains the hardest-hit province with 1 003 additional infections recorded, followed by 590 in the Western Cape, 446 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216306,"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-216305","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\/sas-covid-19-cases-rise-by-3-169.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216305","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=216305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}