{"id":229061,"date":"2022-06-17T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-1-936-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:26:10","slug":"sa-records-1-936-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-1-936-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 936 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/covid19_2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa on Thursday recorded 1 936 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country\u2019s tally of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 983&nbsp;675.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health said in the last 24 hours, eight deaths were recorded, bringing the total to 101&nbsp;584 COVID-19 related deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) said 25&nbsp;369 tests were conducted in the 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 866 240 with a recovery rate of 97.1%, the department said. There were currently 15&nbsp;851 active cases.<\/p>\n<p>To date, 25&nbsp;562 966 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported that the majority of new cases are from Gauteng with 680, followed by the Western Cape with 397 cases.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal recorded 257 new cases, Eastern Cape 157; Limpopo 115; North West 112; Free State 79; Mpumalanga 83; and the Northern Cape 56. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Thursday recorded 1 936 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country\u2019s tally of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 983&nbsp;675. The Department of Health said in the last 24 hours, eight deaths were recorded, bringing the total to 101&nbsp;584 COVID-19 related deaths. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) said 25&nbsp;369 tests were conducted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229062,"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-229061","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-1-936-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229061","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=229061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}