{"id":33855,"date":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=f0f4c0c0634c53f475aee223a0846c4d"},"modified":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 116 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 116 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the country to 2 924 072.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday, the increase represents a 0.7% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A further 20 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 89 352 to date.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This as 18 740 830 tests were conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the private sector, 10 100 643 tests were conducted while in the public sector, 8 640 187 tests were conducted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the department, the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (33%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 20%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Western Cape accounted for 13%; Mpumalanga accounted 8%; Eastern Cape accounted for 7%; Free State, Northern Cape and North West each accounted for 6% respectively; and Limpopo accounted for 2% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In addition, there has been an increase of 16 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours stood at 102 433.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 116 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the country to 2 924 072.According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday, the increase represents a 0.7% posi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n