{"id":39168,"date":"2021-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=77bbd7cde358580114734e4e6931e185"},"modified":"2021-12-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-13-992-new-covid-19-cases-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/sa-records-13-992-new-covid-19-cases-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 13 992 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 13 992 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 180 785.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Health, this represents a 31.0% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A further 11 COVID-19 related deaths were reported bringing total fatalities to 90 148 to date.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service says it continues to provide laboratory-based surveillance to inform the public health response towards COVID-19 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
With regard to tests conducted, 20 283 906 tests were conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In the private sector, 10 931 420 tests were conducted while 9 352 486 tests were conducted in the public sector.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Department of Health says the majority of new cases are from Gauteng with 48%, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 19%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Western Cape accounted for 10%, Free State and North West each accounted for 5% respectively, Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga each accounted for 4% respectively, Limpopo accounted for 2% and the Northern Cape accounted for 1% of new cases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The cumulative number of cases by province are as follows: Eastern Cape 606, Mpumalanga 617, Limpopo 328, North West 713, Northern Cape 191, KwaZulu-Natal 2715, Western Cape 1 464, Gauteng 6 711 and Free State 647.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa has recorded 13 992 new COVID-19 cases which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 180 785.According to the Department of Health, this represents a 31.0% positivity rate.A further 11 COVID-19 related deaths were report…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n