{"id":223155,"date":"2022-04-28T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-6372-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:25:46","slug":"sa-records-6372-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-6372-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 6372 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202204\/testtubes2_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 6 372&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3776298.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a&nbsp;21.1%&nbsp;positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 21.1%, and is higher than yesterday at 18.4%. The 7-day average is 18.0% today, and is higher than yesterday at 16.9%,\u201d the NICD said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng at 49%, followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal at 23%.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape accounted for 14%; Free State and Eastern Cape each accounted for 4% respectively; Mpumalanga accounted for 3%; North West accounted for 2%; and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% respectively of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The National Department of Health (NDoH) has reported&nbsp;three&nbsp;deaths that occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours, which brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;100,351&nbsp;to date.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of hospital admissions, the NDoH said that there has been an increase of&nbsp;62 admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 638 087 with a recovery rate of 96.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours stands at 10, 469 bringing the total number to 34 739 327. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 6 372&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3776298.&nbsp; According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a&nbsp;21.1%&nbsp;positivity rate. \u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 21.1%, and is higher than yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223156,"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-223155","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-6372-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223155","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=223155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}