{"id":217152,"date":"2022-02-21T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-1-456-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:56:00","slug":"sa-records-1-456-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-1-456-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 456 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202202\/hospital2_1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 1 456 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of confirmed cases to 3 658 547.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 7.2% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>The National Department of Health has reported 50 deaths and of these, one occurred in the past 24-48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total fatalities to 98 667 to date.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, 22 880 879 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the public sector, 10 469 865 tests were conducted while 12 411 014 tests were conducted in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (39%), followed by Western Cape (20%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 12%, North West accounted for 9%, Mpumalanga accounted for 7%, Free State accounted for 5%, Eastern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 3% respectively and Northern Cape accounted for 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Cumulative number of cases by province: Gauteng 562, Eastern Cape 49, North West 137, Northern Cape 35, Mpumalanga 102, Limpopo 32, Western Cape 285, KwaZulu-Natal 170 and &nbsp;Free State 78.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 17 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, says it continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 1 456 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of confirmed cases to 3 658 547. This increase represents a 7.2% positivity rate. The National Department of Health has reported 50 deaths and of these, one occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 98 667 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217153,"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-217152","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-1-456-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217152","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=217152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}