{"id":223552,"date":"2022-05-04T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-3-785-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:26:03","slug":"sa-records-3-785-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-3-785-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 3 785 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202205\/stats72.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa on Tuesday recorded 3 785 new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said.<\/p>\n<p>The figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 802&nbsp;198.&nbsp;The increase represented a&nbsp;17.6%&nbsp;positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports seven&nbsp;deaths and of these,&nbsp;two occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;100 377&nbsp;to date,\u201d the NICD said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 24 527 102 tests had been conducted in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>A provincial breakdown of the statistics revealed that a majority of new cases on Tuesday were from Gauteng (45%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (28%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Western Cape accounted for 12%, Free State 5%, Eastern Cape 4%; Mpumalanga and North West 2% each, and Limpopo and the Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d the statistics reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The institute said the proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested on Tuesday was lower than Monday\u2019s (21.0%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seven-day average is (20.6%) today, and is lower than yesterday (20.7%). The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has increased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>On hospital admissions, the NICD said these had increased by&nbsp;68 in the past 24 hours. &#8211; <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Tuesday recorded 3 785 new COVID-19 cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said. The figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 802&nbsp;198.&nbsp;The increase represented a&nbsp;17.6%&nbsp;positivity rate. \u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports seven&nbsp;deaths and of these,&nbsp;two occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223553,"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-223552","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\/05\/sa-records-3-785-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223552","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=223552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}