{"id":914630,"date":"2022-01-08T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/covid-19-in-sa-over-7-000-new-cases-and-119-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:33:31","slug":"covid-19-in-sa-over-7-000-new-cases-and-119-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/covid-19-in-sa-over-7-000-new-cases-and-119-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 in SA: Over 7 000 new cases and 119 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – South Africa recorded more than 7 759 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, with 119 related deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 7 759 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 521 572,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in a statement released on Saturday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis increase represents a 19.0% positivity rate. As per the National Department of Health, a further 119 Covid-19-related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 92 371 to date.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to the NICD, a total of 21 527 936 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

The majority of new cases are from the Western Cape (26%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (25%). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is followed by Gauteng which accounted for 20% of cases; the Eastern for 11%; the Free State, Mpumalanga, the North West and Northern Cape each for 4% respectively; and Limpopo for 3% of today\u2019s new cases.<\/p>\n

The proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 19.0% which is lower than yesterday (20.2%). The seven-day average is 20.6% today, which is lower than yesterday (21.7%).<\/p>\n

There has been an increase of 126 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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South Africans are encouraged to get vaccinated, wear mask properly, gather in ventilated spaces if at an event, avoid unnecessary gatherings, maintain social distancing and wash their hands regularly.<\/p>\n

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Cape Town – South Africa recorded more than 7 759 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, with 119 related deaths. \u201cToday the institute reports 7 759 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 521 572,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) […]<\/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-914630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914630","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=914630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}