{"id":220528,"date":"2022-03-28T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-989-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:35:58","slug":"sa-records-989-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-989-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 989 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202203\/covid11_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 989&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 713&nbsp;252&nbsp;since March 2020.&nbsp;This increase represents a&nbsp;5.9%&nbsp;positivity rate.<\/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. Today, the NDoH reports&nbsp;one&nbsp;death, which did not occur in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;99 966&nbsp;to date,\u201d said the NICD on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 23 744 362 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases were from are from Gauteng (37%), followed by the Western Cape (29%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 20%; Mpumalanga accounted for 4%; Eastern Cape and North West each accounted for 3% respectively; Free State accounted for 2%; and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 5.9%, which is higher than yesterday (5.7%). The seven-day average is 5.8% today, which is higher than yesterday (5.7%). The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d said the NICD. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 989&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported. The figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 713&nbsp;252&nbsp;since March 2020.&nbsp;This increase represents a&nbsp;5.9%&nbsp;positivity rate. \u201cDue to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220529,"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-220528","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-989-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220528","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=220528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}