{"id":229903,"date":"2022-06-28T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-records-212-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:06:20","slug":"sa-records-212-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-records-212-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 212 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/testtubesnip_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 212 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 992 661.<\/p>\n<p>According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a&nbsp;3.4% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng at 43% followed by the Western Cape at 19%. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 18%; Mpumalanga accounted for 6%; North West accounted for 5% respectively; Eastern Cape accounted for 4%; Northern Cape accounted for 3%; Limpopo accounted for 2% and Free State accounted for 0% of the cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 3.4 %, and is lower than yesterday at 5.7%. The seven-day average is 5.9% today, and is lower than yesterday\u2019s 6.0%,\u201d the NICD said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Department of Health (NDoH) has reported&nbsp;nine&nbsp;deaths, and of these,&nbsp;four&nbsp;occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;101,740&nbsp;to date.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of hospital admissions, the NDoH said that there has been an increase of&nbsp;nine&nbsp;hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 877 949 with a recovery rate of 97,1%.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 25 698&nbsp;459 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has administered a total number of 36&nbsp;780&nbsp;463 vaccines to date. &#8211;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 212 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 992 661. According to data provided by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a&nbsp;3.4% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng at 43% followed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229904,"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-229903","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-212-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229903","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=229903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}