{"id":40620,"date":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=01ac4546e5b69f9474120d0364b16146"},"modified":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-1-557-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/sa-records-1-557-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 557 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>South Africa has recorded 1 557 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 715 390. <\/P><P>In a statement on Tuesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said the increase represents a 6.0% positivity rate.<\/P><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 six deaths and of these, three occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours.  This brings the total fatalities to 99 976 to date,\u201d it said.<\/P><P>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (38%), followed by the Western Cape (23%).<\/P><P>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 22%; Eastern Cape 7%; North West 4%; Mpumalanga 3%; Free State 2%; and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1%, respectively.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 1 557 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 715 390. 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