{"id":40101,"date":"2022-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=fa80c085934a7790bbad1b1a01c459c2"},"modified":"2022-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"gauteng-leads-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/gauteng-leads-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng leads new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some 1 147 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded in South Africa over the past 24 hours, at a positivity rate of at least 6.1%.<\/P>
This is according to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/P>
The new cases bring the total number of laboratory confirmed cases to at least 3.6 million cases since the first case was reported two years ago.<\/P>
\u201cDue to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported. Today, the NDoH reports zero deaths, as well as zero deaths occurring in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours.<\/P>
\u201cTotal fatalities remain unchanged at 99,543 to date,\u201d the institute said on Sunday.<\/P>
The provincial new cases breakdown is as follows:<\/P>
\u2022\tGauteng 418;<\/P>
\u2022\tKwaZulu-Natal 259;<\/P>
\u2022\tWestern Cape 236;<\/P>
\u2022\tNorth West 69;<\/P>
\u2022\tFree State 48;<\/P>
\u2022\tMpumalanga 44;<\/P>
\u2022\tEastern Cape 38;<\/P>
\u2022\tLimpopo 22,<\/P>
\u2022\tNorthern Cape 13.<\/P>
There was a slight increase of hospitalisations with six new admissions.<\/P>
The total number of vaccinations over the past 24 hours was 7 414 \u2013 bringing the total number of jabs in arms to at least 32 027 146. <\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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