{"id":226453,"date":"2022-05-19T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-reports-8-179-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:06:30","slug":"sa-reports-8-179-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-reports-8-179-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 8 179 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202205\/stats76.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 8 179 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 908 020.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said there might be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the NDoH reports 55 deaths, and of these, 18 occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100 867 to date,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (38%), followed by the Western Cape (21%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape 8% and Free State 7% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Cape accounted for 4%; Mpumalanga and North West 3% each, and Limpopo 1% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is (22.6%), and is higher than yesterday (20.9%). The 7-day average is (23.1%) today, and is lower than yesterday (23.4%),&#8221; the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 145 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has to date conducted 24 963 628 COVID-19 tests in both the public and private sectors. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 8 179 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 908 020. This increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate. In a statement on Wednesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said there might be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported due to the ongoing audit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226454,"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-226453","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-reports-8-179-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226453","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=226453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}