{"id":217959,"date":"2022-03-01T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:56:11","slug":"sa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 785 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202203\/covidhospital.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 785 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 674 042.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)&nbsp;said this increase represents a&nbsp;5.7%&nbsp;positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (41%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape each accounting for 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Mpumalanga accounted for 6%, Free State and North West accounted for 5%, respectively, Eastern Cape accounted for 2%, Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of the new cases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported. The NDoH reports&nbsp;183&nbsp;deaths, and of these,&nbsp;0&nbsp;occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;99 412&nbsp;to date,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>To date, a total of 23 085 457 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The NICD said the proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested stands at 5.7%, which is lower than the previous day at (6.7%).<\/p>\n<p>In the past 24 hours, there has been an increase of&nbsp;29<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>hospital admissions across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of vaccines administered by the Department of Health in the last 24 hours is 99&nbsp;898, bringing the overall number to 31&nbsp;544&nbsp;594. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 785 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 674 042. In a statement on Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD)&nbsp;said this increase represents a&nbsp;5.7%&nbsp;positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (41%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape each accounting for 20%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217960,"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-217959","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\/03\/sa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217959","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=217959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}