{"id":228772,"date":"2022-06-14T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/new-covid-19-cases-up-by-536\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T08:26:15","slug":"new-covid-19-cases-up-by-536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/new-covid-19-cases-up-by-536\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 cases up by 536"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/stats80.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 536 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24-hour reporting period, at a positivity rate of some 5.6%.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases up to 3 979&nbsp;126.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 5.6% and is lower than yesterday (6.7%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seven-day average is 7.7% today and is lower than yesterday (7.9%). The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of deaths related to the virus increased by 25, with four of those coming in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of deaths now stands at 101&nbsp;509, with 32 more hospitalisations due to the virus reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NICD, Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal continue to account for most of the new cases of the virus, with the three provinces accounting for nearly three quarters of all new cases.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial breakdown of new cases is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gauteng \u2013 206<\/li>\n<li>Western Cape \u2013 115<\/li>\n<li>KwaZulu-Natal \u2013 79<\/li>\n<li>North West \u2013 33<\/li>\n<li>Mpumalanga \u2013 31<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Cape \u2013 28<\/li>\n<li>Free State \u2013 25<\/li>\n<li>Limpopo \u2013 9<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cape \u2013 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, some 31&nbsp;651 more COVID-19 vaccines were administered over the past 24-hour reporting period \u2013 bringing the total number of jabs in arms to at least 36&nbsp;484&nbsp;428. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 536 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24-hour reporting period, at a positivity rate of some 5.6%. This brings the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases up to 3 979&nbsp;126. \u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 5.6% and is lower than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228773,"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-228772","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\/new-covid-19-cases-up-by-536.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228772","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=228772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}