{"id":42625,"date":"2022-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=0f7a66ca7a5e42d586e4c6eadbcc1f9f"},"modified":"2022-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-3-699-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/sa-records-3-699-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 3 699 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 3 699 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 648 968.<\/p>\n
This increase represents a 9.7% positivity rate.<\/p>\n
The National Department of Health has reported 89 deaths and of these, seven occurred in the past 24 – 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 97 520 to date.<\/p>\n
In total, 22 762 117 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
In the private sector, 12 343 731 tests were conducted, while 10 418 386 were conducted in the public sector.<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (36%), followed by Western Cape (17%).<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been an increase of 78 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the Department of Health said in a statement.<\/p>\n
KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 12%, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 9% respectively, Free State accounted for 6%, Limpopo accounted for 5%, Eastern Cape accounted for 4% and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today\u2019s new cases.<\/p>\n
The cumulative number of cases by province:<\/p>\n
Gauteng: 1 328, Free State: 237, Eastern Cape: 143, Mpumalanga: 317, Limpopo: 176 , North West: 338, Western Cape” 636, Northern Cape: 66 and KwaZulu-Natal: 458.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 3 699 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 648 968.This increase represents a 9.7% positivity rate.The National Department of Health has reported 89 deaths and of these, seven occ…<\/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