{"id":231166,"date":"2022-07-13T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-detects-493-new-covid-19-infections-15-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:06:10","slug":"sa-detects-493-new-covid-19-infections-15-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-detects-493-new-covid-19-infections-15-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA detects 493 new COVID-19 infections, 15 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202207\/covidtesttube.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has confirmed 493 COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths related to the virus in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this means the country is now home to 3 998 466 laboratory-confirmed infections and a death toll of 101 895 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows that Gauteng remains the hardest-hit province after 192 cases were detected in the province, of which 34 are believed to be possible reinfections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Western Cape accounted for 92 infections, 69 in KwaZulu-Natal and 57 in Eastern Cape, while the rest of the provinces logged less than 30 cases each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 16 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the NICD said, adding that 1 123 patients are currently receiving treatment for COVID-19 in hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 25 839 392 tests conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to the Department of Health, South Africa has administered 36 979 793 COVID-19 vaccines, of which 15 007 were given on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the latest data shows that 20 185 400 adults are jabbed, of which 18 398 905 are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The department said 2 614 483 shots were administered to children aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 12 July 2022, there have been 554 290 112 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6 351 801 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has confirmed 493 COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths related to the virus in the past 24 hours. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this means the country is now home to 3 998 466 laboratory-confirmed infections and a death toll of 101 895 since the outbreak. Data shows that Gauteng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231167,"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-231166","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-detects-493-new-covid-19-infections-15-deaths.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231166","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=231166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}