{"id":224441,"date":"2022-05-13T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-8-920-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:05:53","slug":"sa-records-8-920-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-8-920-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 8 920 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202205\/testtubesnip_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa on Thursday recorded 8&nbsp;920&nbsp;new COVID-19, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>Representing a&nbsp;23.1% positivity rate, the figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3&nbsp;871 085.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 24-hours, the National Department of Health confirmed 21 COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf these,&nbsp;eight&nbsp;deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 100 630 to date,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 24&nbsp;804 199 tests have 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 Thursday were from Gauteng (39%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal (22%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern Cape accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 7%; Free State accounted for 6%; North West accounted for 4%; Mpumalanga accounted for 3%; Northern Cape accounted for 2%; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d said the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The 23.1% proportion of positive cases was lower than Wednesday\u2019s&nbsp;25.3%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 7-day average is (24.7%) today, and is lower than yesterday (25.1%),\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>On hospital admissions, the Institute said there had been an increase of&nbsp;150&nbsp;hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Thursday recorded 8&nbsp;920&nbsp;new COVID-19, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). Representing a&nbsp;23.1% positivity rate, the figure brought the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to&nbsp;3&nbsp;871 085.&nbsp; In the 24-hours, the National Department of Health confirmed 21 COVID-19 related deaths. \u201cOf these,&nbsp;eight&nbsp;deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224442,"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-224441","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-8-920-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224441","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=224441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}