{"id":32516,"date":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=f3d47d319cb760bf105ca66d4c8891e3"},"modified":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-8-436-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/sa-records-8-436-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 8 436 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa on Tuesday recorded 8 436 new COVID-19 cases, with a 17.8% positivity rate. <\/p>\n
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 761 066 since the outbreak. <\/p>\n
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said a total of 12 270 842 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors, with 47 394 tests conducted since the last report. <\/p>\n
The majority of new cases were recorded in Gauteng (64%), followed by the Western Cape (7%), North West (6%), Free State (6%) and KwaZulu-Natal (5%). <\/p>\n
\u201cAn increase of 1 415 hospital admissions and 157 in-hospital deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours,\u201d the NICD said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa on Tuesday recorded 8 436 new COVID-19 cases, with a 17.8% positivity rate. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 761 066 since the outbreak. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said a total of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n