{"id":229447,"date":"2022-06-22T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-1-087-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:46:30","slug":"sa-records-1-087-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-1-087-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 087 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/testtubes2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa on Tuesday recorded&nbsp;1 087&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3&nbsp;987&nbsp;979.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 7.8%&nbsp;positivity rate, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the National Department of Health reported 20 deaths and of these, three&nbsp;deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 101 640 to date. A total of 25,618,427 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors as per the table below,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of recoveries now stands at 3&nbsp;872 768, with a recovery rate of 97.1%.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the new cases indicates that the majority were from Gauteng (37%), followed by Western Cape (21%). Kwa-Zulu Natal accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 9%; Free State accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 4% respectively; Northern Cape accounted for 2%; and Limpopo accounted for 1% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>Over the 24 hours, there was an increase of&nbsp;39&nbsp;hospital admissions. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa on Tuesday recorded&nbsp;1 087&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3&nbsp;987&nbsp;979. This increase represents a 7.8%&nbsp;positivity rate, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). In addition, the National Department of Health reported 20 deaths and of these, three&nbsp;deaths occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. \u201cThe cumulative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229448,"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-229447","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-1-087-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229447","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=229447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}