{"id":44086,"date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=5157f2cd7d9749bbca59d729a0413168"},"modified":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T00:00:00","slug":"sa-reported-6170-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/sa-reported-6170-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reported 6170 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 6 170 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 808 368.<\/p>\n
The increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n
The Department of Health has reported 30 deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours.<\/p>\n
This, according to the department, brings the total fatalities to 100 407 to date.<\/p>\n
With regards to tests conducted, 24 554 412 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n
In the private sector, 13 378 686 tests were conducted while 11 175 726 tests were conducted in the public sector.<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng Province (41%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal (27%).<\/p>\n
Western Cape accounted for 14%, Eastern Cape accounted for 7%, Free State accounted for 5%, Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 2% respectively and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1%, respectively.<\/p>\n
There has been an increase of 120 hospital admissions 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 6 170 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 808 368.The increase represents a 22.6% positivity rate.The Department of Health has reported 30 deaths and of these, two occurred in th…<\/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