{"id":221268,"date":"2022-04-05T09:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-685-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:44:55","slug":"sa-records-685-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-685-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 685 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202204\/testtubes2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 685 more cases of COVID-19 in the country over the past 24 hour reporting period.<\/p>\n<p>The positivity rate for the reporting period is at 5.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The cases bring the cumulative number of COVID-19 infections to at least 3.6 million laboratory confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (46%), followed by the Western Cape (20%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 18% and Mpumalanga accounted for 5%, Eastern Cape, Free State and North West each accounted for 3% respectively. Northern Cape accounted 1%&nbsp; and Limpopo accounted for less than 1% of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d said the NICD on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths and hospital admissions as a result of the virus are also on the low.<\/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 two deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 &#8211; 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100,052 to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 26 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the NICD reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at least 49&nbsp;000 more people living in South Africa have received a jab over the past 24 hour period.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of those who received at least one jab of the vaccination now stands at least 33.8 million. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 685 more cases of COVID-19 in the country over the past 24 hour reporting period. The positivity rate for the reporting period is at 5.4%. The cases bring the cumulative number of COVID-19 infections to at least 3.6 million laboratory confirmed cases. \u201cThe majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221269,"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-221268","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\/04\/sa-records-685-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221268","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=221268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}