{"id":228410,"date":"2022-06-09T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-2-093-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T08:06:24","slug":"sa-records-2-093-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-2-093-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 2 093 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/stats78.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 2 093<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 973&nbsp;086.<\/p>\n<p>According to data provided by the<strong> <\/strong>National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents an&nbsp;8.8% positivity rate.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (32%), followed by the Western Cape (23%).<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 11% each; Free State 7%; Mpumalanga 5%; Northern Cape and North West 4% each Limpopo accounted for 3% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 8.8 %, and is unchanged from yesterday\u2019s 8.8%. The 7-day average is 9.1% today, and is lower than yesterday 9.4%,\u201d the NICD said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Department of Health (NDoH) has reported&nbsp;27 deaths, eight of which occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the number of fatalities to&nbsp;101 424 to date.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In terms of hospital admissions, the NDoH said there has been an increase of&nbsp;85<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of recoveries now stands at 3 846 597, with a recovery rate of 96,8%.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 25&nbsp;424&nbsp;031 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has administered a total number of 36&nbsp;363&nbsp;675 vaccines to date. &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 2 093&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 973&nbsp;086. According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents an&nbsp;8.8% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (32%), followed by the Western Cape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228411,"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-228410","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-2-093-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410","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=228410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}