{"id":38684,"date":"2022-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=f890f626dfb796cf75eb542e478a316f"},"modified":"2022-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"sa-reports-4-379-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/sa-reports-4-379-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 4 379 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 4 379 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory confirmed cases 3 472 436. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The increase represents a 23.1% positivity rate. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 30 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 91 228 to date,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases were reported from Western Cape (27%) followed by Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal each accounting for 21%. Eastern Cape accounted for 11%; Free State and Mpumalanga each accounted for 5%; Northern Cape accounted for 4%; Limpopo and North West each accounted for 3% of new cases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 21 286 849 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There here has been an increase of 27 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The country has administered a total 27977 830 vaccines of which 877 were administered in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 4 379 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory confirmed cases 3 472 436. The increase represents a 23.1% positivity rate. \u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 30 COVID-19 related deaths have …<\/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