{"id":44268,"date":"2022-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=d930dbbc77dd6ebc0186bb135140d973"},"modified":"2022-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"sa-reports-7-523-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/sa-reports-7-523-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA reports 7 523 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 7 523 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 852 148.<\/P>
This increase represents a 23.0% positivity rate.<\/P>
\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports 26 deaths and of these, eight occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths are 100 559 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Tuesday.<\/P>
The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (38%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (24%). The Western Cape accounted for 17%; Eastern Cape 8%; Free State 5%; North West 4%; Mpumalanga 3%, and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of the new cases.<\/P>
\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is (23.0%), and is higher than yesterday (18.7%). The 7-day average is (24.7%) today, and is higher than yesterday (24.0%),\u201d the NICD said.<\/P>
In the last 24 hours, there has been an increase of 148 hospital admissions.<\/P>
South Africa has to date conducted 24 726 029 COVID-19 tests in both public and private sectors.<\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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South Africa has recorded 7 523 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 852 148.This increase represents a 23.0% positivity rate.\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports 26 deaths and of these, e…<\/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