{"id":222355,"date":"2022-04-19T09:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-877-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:44:56","slug":"sa-records-877-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-877-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 877 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202204\/testnasalcapture.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 877 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 742&nbsp;107.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 9.6% 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 34 deaths, and of these, three occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100 181 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (50%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (24%).<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape and Free State accounted for 3% respectively. Mpumalanga accounted for 2%; and Limpopo, Northern Cape and the North West accounted for 1% respectively of Monday\u2019s new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is (9.6%), and is higher than yesterday (8.4%). The 7-day average is (7.7%) today, and is higher than yesterday (7.1%),\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of four hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 24 198 159 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 877 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 742&nbsp;107. This increase represents a 9.6% 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. Today, the NDoH reports 34 deaths, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222356,"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-222355","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-877-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222355","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=222355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}