{"id":232491,"date":"2022-07-27T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T07:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/521-people-confirmed-to-have-contracted-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T07:26:29","slug":"521-people-confirmed-to-have-contracted-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/521-people-confirmed-to-have-contracted-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"521 people confirmed to have contracted COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202207\/covidtestdreadloclady_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa recorded 521 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 4 003 502.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Gauteng reported 238 new infections, followed by 97 in the Western Cape, 79 in KwaZulu-Natal, 43 in the Eastern Cape, 21 in Mpumalanga and 20 in the North West. Meanwhile, the latest data shows that the rest of the provinces logged less than 20 cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health said seven more people lost their lives to COVID-19, of which two died in the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This means the country&#8217;s death toll now stands at 101 962 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, hospital admissions currently stand at 1 011, of which 12 patients were admitted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 25 948 518 tests conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the department reported that it administered 15 703 COVID-19 vaccine doses since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Data also shows that 20 242 420 adults are jabbed in South Africa, of which 18 456 377 are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 2 624 917 children aged between 12 and 17 are vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 726 July 2022, there have been 568 773 510 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6 381 643 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa recorded 521 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 4 003 502. According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Gauteng reported 238 new infections, followed by 97 in the Western Cape, 79 in KwaZulu-Natal, 43 in the Eastern Cape, 21 in Mpumalanga and 20 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232492,"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-232491","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\/521-people-confirmed-to-have-contracted-covid-19.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232491","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=232491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}