{"id":34502,"date":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=75d8c90dd2a4462f9563a3dc12d1727a"},"modified":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/sa-records-116-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 116 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 116 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the country to 2 924 072.<\/P>
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According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday, the increase represents a 0.7% positivity rate.<\/P>
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A further 20 COVID-19 related deaths were reported, bringing total fatalities to 89 352 to date.<\/P>
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This as 18 740 830 tests were conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/P>
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In the private sector, 10 100 643 tests were conducted while in the public sector, 8 640 187 tests were conducted.<\/P>
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According to the department, the majority of new cases are from Gauteng (33%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 20%.<\/P>
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The Western Cape accounted for 13%; Mpumalanga accounted 8%; Eastern Cape accounted for 7%; Free State, Northern Cape and North West each accounted for 6% respectively; and Limpopo accounted for 2% of the new cases.<\/P>
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In addition, there has been an increase of 16 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/P>
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Meanwhile, the total number of vaccines administered in the last 24 hours stood at 102 433.<\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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