{"id":223945,"date":"2022-05-09T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-5-486-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:26:09","slug":"sa-records-5-486-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-5-486-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 5 486 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202205\/hospital2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa on Sunday recorded 5 486&nbsp;new COVID-19, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>Representing a&nbsp;25.3%&nbsp;positivity rate, the figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 841&nbsp;388.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 24-hours, the National Department of Health confirmed seven COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf these, five occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>The seven deaths brought the total fatalities to&nbsp;100 523&nbsp;to date.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, 24 675&nbsp;963&nbsp;tests had been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>A provincial breakdown of the statistics reveals that the majority of new cases on Sunday were from Gauteng Province (40%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal (26%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern Cape accounted for 17%; Free State accounted for 5%; Eastern Cape and North West each accounted for 3% respectively; Mpumalanga and Northern Cape each accounted for 2% respectively; and Limpopo accounted for &lt;1% of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The 25.3% proportion of positive cases was lower than Saturday\u2019s 31.1%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 7-day average is (24.3%) today, and is higher than yesterday (23.8%). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has increased,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>On hospital admissions, the Institute said these had increased by 43<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>in the reporting cycle. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Sunday recorded 5 486&nbsp;new COVID-19, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). Representing a&nbsp;25.3%&nbsp;positivity rate, the figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3 841&nbsp;388.&nbsp; In the 24-hours, the National Department of Health confirmed seven COVID-19 related deaths. \u201cOf these, five occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223946,"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-223945","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-5-486-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223945","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=223945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}