{"id":218772,"date":"2022-03-09T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-1-436-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:56:07","slug":"sa-records-1-436-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-1-436-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 436 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202203\/stats66.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 1 436 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3&nbsp;686 556.<\/p>\n<p>The increase represents a 5.5% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (35%), followed by the Western Cape (23%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 18%, the Eastern Cape 6%, North West 5%, Free State and Mpumalanga 4% each, Limpopo 3% and the Northern Cape accounted for 2% of new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health has reported 16 deaths and of these, zero occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 99 625 to date.<\/p>\n<p>A reported 23&nbsp;285 855 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the public sector, 10&nbsp;634 753 tests were conducted, while in private sector, 12&nbsp;651 102 tests were conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of cases by province are as follows: Gauteng 505, KwaZulu-Natal 257, North West 71, Free State 58 , Limpopo 41, Mpumalanga 58, Eastern Cape 81, Western Cape 334 and Northern Cape 31. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 1 436 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3&nbsp;686 556. The increase represents a 5.5% positivity rate. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (35%), followed by the Western Cape (23%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 18%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218773,"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-218772","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-1-436-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218772","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=218772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}