{"id":230213,"date":"2022-07-01T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-reports-399-new-covid-19-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:26:09","slug":"sa-reports-399-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-reports-399-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 399 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202207\/stats82.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 399 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the number of laboratory confirmed case to 3 993 843.<\/p>\n<p>The increase represents a 3.6% positivity rate, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>The department reported 29 deaths and of these,&nbsp;nine&nbsp;occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to&nbsp;101 793&nbsp;to date.<\/p>\n<p>A total 25 731&nbsp;148&nbsp;tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (39%), followed by the Western Cape (22%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 12% of the new cases; Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga 6% each; Free State and Limpopo 5% each; Northern Cape 4%, and North West 3%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is&nbsp;(3.6%), and is lower than yesterday (3.9%). The 7-day average is (4,8%) today, and is lower than yesterday (5.1%),\u201d said the NICD. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 399 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the number of laboratory confirmed case to 3 993 843. The increase represents a 3.6% positivity rate, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). The department reported 29 deaths and of these,&nbsp;nine&nbsp;occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230214,"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-230213","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\/07\/sa-reports-399-new-covid-19-cases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230213","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=230213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}