{"id":913710,"date":"2022-01-05T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/more-than-11-100-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T19:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:34:23","slug":"more-than-11-100-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/more-than-11-100-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 11 100 new Covid-19 infections recorded in SA on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN – More than 11 100 new Covid-19 infections were recorded in South Africa on Wednesday, with an additional 110 related deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 11 106 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 494 696,\u201d South Africa\u2019s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wednesday\u2019s new Covid-19 cases coupled with the 49 970 test conducted represents a positivity rate of 22.2%.<\/p>\n

56.1% of Wednesday\u2019s Covid-19 tests were performed within the country\u2019s private sector, compared to 43.9% of tests in the public sector. The private sector has conducted the majority of South Africa\u2019s total number of Covid-19 tests.<\/p>\n

NICD further confirms Wednesday\u2019s positivity rate (22.2%) is higher than Tuesday\u2019s (20.1%). However, fewer tests were conducted on Tuesday (40 105).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 110 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 91 561 to date,\u201d NICD adds.<\/p>\n

Hospital admissions have also increased by 349, bringing the total number of those currently admitted to 8 887 – 63% of current admissions are within South Africa\u2019s public sector.<\/p>\n

Provincial breakdown of South Africa\u2019s 11 106 new Covid-19 cases:<\/h2>\n
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  • KwaZulu-Natal: 2 863<\/li>\n
  • Western Cape: 2 834<\/li>\n
  • Gauteng: 2 156<\/li>\n
  • Eastern Cape: 1 228<\/li>\n
  • Free State: 514<\/li>\n
  • North West: 405<\/li>\n
  • Limpopo: 375<\/li>\n
  • Mpumalanga: 372<\/li>\n
  • Northern Cape: 359<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Lastly, 64 724 vaccines were administered on Wednesday, the most occurring in Gauteng at 22 683.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    CAPE TOWN – More than 11 100 new Covid-19 infections were recorded in South Africa on Wednesday, with an additional 110 related deaths. \u201cToday the institute reports 11 106 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 494 696,\u201d South Africa\u2019s National Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}