{"id":222574,"date":"2022-04-21T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-2-846-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:44:50","slug":"sa-records-2-846-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-2-846-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 2 846 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202204\/testnasalcapture_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 2 846&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 746 424, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The increase represents a&nbsp;13.4%&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;16&nbsp;deaths, and of these, eight&nbsp;occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;100 211&nbsp;to date,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (46%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (23%).<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape accounted for 17% of the new cases, Eastern Cape 6%, Free State 3%, Mpumalanga and the North West 2% each, Limpopo and Northern Cape 1% each.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there has been an increase of&nbsp;68&nbsp;hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 24 234 233&nbsp;tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 2 846&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 746 424, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday. The increase represents a&nbsp;13.4%&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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222575,"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-222574","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-2-846-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222574","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=222574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}