{"id":31539,"date":"2021-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=4b8f775af840f0194465cdc8709b259a"},"modified":"2021-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-15-501-new-covid-19-cases-457-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/sa-records-15-501-new-covid-19-cases-457-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 15 501 new COVID-19 cases, 457 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 15 501 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 090 909.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis increase represents a 26.2% positivity rate, which is lower than yesterday (31.6%),\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
As per the National Department of Health, a further 457 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 62 628 to date.<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (59%), followed by Western Cape (10%).<\/p>\n
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 8%; North West accounted for 6%; Mpumalanga accounted for 5%; Eastern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 4%; Free State accounted for 3%; and Northern Cape accounted for 1% of the new cases.<\/p>\n
A total of 13 548 841 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, an increase of 790 hospital admissions have been reported in the past 24 hours. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 15 501 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 090 909.\u201cThis increase represents a 26.2% positivity rate, which is lower than yesterday (31.6%),\u201d the National Institute for Communicable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n