{"id":45611,"date":"2022-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=feb7fe3ee8d47f829cda78d07da17a8c"},"modified":"2022-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-records-263-new-covid-19-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/sa-records-records-263-new-covid-19-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records records 263 new COVID-19 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa now has 4 000 894 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases since the outbreak, of which 263 were added on Tuesday.<\/P>
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Gauteng recorded the most cases after 102 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/P>
The province is followed by 77 infections in the Western Cape, 30 in KwaZulu-Natal, while the rest of the provinces logged less than 20 cases.<\/P>
Meanwhile, the latest data reveals that the country lost 13 more patients to COVID-19, one in the past 48 hours.<\/P>
This means the country now has a death toll of 101 935 since the first case was reported on 5 March 2020.<\/P>
Meanwhile, nine more people were admitted to hospital in the past 24 hours, pushing the number of hospital admissions to 1 034.<\/P>
The information is based on the 25 893 612 tests in both the public and private sectors. <\/P>
In addition, the Department of Health said 13 435 vaccine doses were administered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 37 060 820 since the rollout programme began last year.<\/P>
Data also show that 20 214 165 adults have now received the COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa, while 2 614 505 vaccine doses have been given to children between the ages of 12 and 17.<\/P>
Globally, as of 19 July 2022, there have been 561 156 416 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6 365 510 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation.<\/P>
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Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P>
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