{"id":227755,"date":"2022-06-02T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-2-647-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:26:09","slug":"sa-records-2-647-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-2-647-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 2 647 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/stats77.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 2 647 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 960 424.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents an 11.3% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>The National Department of Health has recorded 29 deaths and of these, six occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, there has been an increase of 86 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 100 219 to date.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 25 288 429 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In the public sector, 11 499 015 tests were conducted, while 13 789 414 tests were conducted in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (34%), followed by the Western Cape (23%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 12% of the new cases, Eastern Cape 10%; Free State 6%; Mpumalanga, North West and Northern Cape 4% each and Limpopo 2%.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of cases by province is as follows: Gauteng 909, KwaZulu-Natal 322, Free State 165, North West 109, Mpumalanga 100, Limpopo 64, Northern Cape 104, Eastern Cape 268 and Western Cape 606. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 2 647 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 960 424. This increase represents an 11.3% positivity rate. The National Department of Health has recorded 29 deaths and of these, six occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. According to the department, there has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227756,"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-227755","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\/06\/sa-records-2-647-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227755","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=227755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}