{"id":220647,"date":"2022-03-29T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/new-covid-19-cases-dip-under-600\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T08:16:15","slug":"new-covid-19-cases-dip-under-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/new-covid-19-cases-dip-under-600\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 cases dip under 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202203\/covid-19testdrandpatient_0.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) reports that at least 581 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in the country at a positivity rate of 4.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The new cases brings the cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases up to some 3.7 million since the outbreak of the virus two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (275), followed by Western Cape (118).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKwaZulu-Natal accounted for 109, Free State 16, Mpumalanga 16 and North West 15 respectively; Eastern Cape 11 and Northern Cape 14 each accounted for 2% respectively and Limpopo accounted for 1% (7) of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The institute explained that the low incidence of deaths recorded due to the virus may be explained by a backlog.<\/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 4 deaths and of these, 1 occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 99 970 to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 21 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the NDOH\u2019s vaccination programme continues with some 74&nbsp;246 vaccines administered in the past 24 hour reporting period.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of vaccines administered to at least 33.4 million doses since the start of the rollout. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) reports that at least 581 new COVID-19 cases have been identified in the country at a positivity rate of 4.5%. The new cases brings the cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases up to some 3.7 million since the outbreak of the virus two years ago. \u201cThe majority of new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220648,"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-220647","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\/new-covid-19-cases-dip-under-600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220647","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=220647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}