{"id":49821,"date":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/?guid=769935aad2add209dee832ca93105230"},"modified":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-12-979-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/sa-records-12-979-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 12 979 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 12 979 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory confirmed cases to 3 446 532.<\/p>\n
This increase represents a 28.1% positivity rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 126 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 91 061 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases are from KwaZulu-Natal (27%), followed by Western Cape (26%). <\/p>\n
Gauteng accounted for 17%; Eastern Cape accounted for 12%; Free State accounted for 5%; North West accounted for 4%; while Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape each accounted for 3% respectively of the new cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 28.1% which is higher than yesterday (26.0%). The 7-day average is 26.0% today, which is lower than yesterday (26.1%). The 7-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n
There has been an increase of 472 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A total of 21 187 864 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
To date South Africa has administered 27 955 112 vaccines, with 38 880 vaccines being 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 12 979 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory confirmed cases to 3 446 532.This increase represents a 28.1% positivity rate.\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 126 COVID-19 related deaths h…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n