{"id":43205,"date":"2022-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=63f5b2dbf5b792774c20e5496d3ae4de"},"modified":"2022-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"sa-records-1-481-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/sa-records-1-481-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SA records 1 481 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa recorded 1 481 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 728 689 since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The increase represents a 5.8% positivity rate, according to the Department of Health.<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases on Thursday were from Gauteng (40%), followed by Kwa-Zulu Natal (24%).<\/p>\n
The North West accounted for 31 new cases, the Eastern Cape had 88, Free State 40, Gauteng 590, Western Cape 341, Limpopo 21, Mpumalanga 48, Northern Cape 12 and KwaZulu-Natal had 310.<\/p>\n
The department said five deaths were reported bringing the total number of fatalities to 100 075.<\/p>\n
There has been an increase of 55 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours, while the cumulative number of recoveries stands at 3 615 531 with a recovery rate of 97.0%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa recorded 1 481 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 728 689 since the start of the pandemic.The increase represents a 5.8% positivity rate, according to the Department of Health.The m…<\/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