{"id":43473,"date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=e24a5ff1cf9bc843e24cb6a4964c991e"},"modified":"2022-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"443-new-covid-19-cases-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/443-new-covid-19-cases-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"443 new COVID-19 cases reported"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 443 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 993 444. <\/P>
This increase represents a 3.9% positivity rate.<\/P>
\u201cThe Department of Health has reported 19 deaths, and of these, two occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,764 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday.<\/P>
South Africa has to date conducted 25 720 034 tests in both public and private sectors.<\/P>
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (37%) followed by Western Cape (19%).<\/P>
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape accounted for 10%; Free State accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga and North West accounted for 4% each respectively, Northern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 3% of the cases respectively.<\/P>
\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is (3.9%), and is higher than yesterday (3.3%). The 7-day average is (5.1%) today, and is lower than yesterday (5.3%),\u201d the NICD said on Wednesday.<\/P>
There has been an increase of 18 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. <\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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South Africa has recorded 443 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 993 444. This increase represents a 3.9% positivity rate.\u201cThe Department of Health has reported 19 deaths, and of these, two occurred in the …<\/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