{"id":914831,"date":"2022-01-09T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/covid-19-in-sa-4-482-new-cases-as-82-more-die\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:46:34","slug":"covid-19-in-sa-4-482-new-cases-as-82-more-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/covid-19-in-sa-4-482-new-cases-as-82-more-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 in SA: 4 482 new cases as 82 more die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cd2c44b6-346a-5f86-8394-2a25ca1b6f92.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town &#8211; South Africa recorded 4 482 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with 82 related deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cToday the institute reports 4 482 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 526 054,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in a statement released on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The NICD indicated that this increase represents a 17.6% positivity rate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 82 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 92 453 to date. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to the NICD, a total of 21 553 366 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from the Western Cape which accounted for 26% of cases, followed by KwaZulu-Natal (23%).<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng accounted for 22%; Eastern Cape accounted for 8%; Northern Cape accounted for 6%; Free State accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga and North West each accounted for 4% respectively. Limpopo only accounted for 3% of today\u2019s new cases. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 17.6% which is lower than yesterday (19.0%). The 7-day average is 19.8% today, which is lower than yesterday (20.6%).<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 80 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health vaccine dashboard, a total of 15 098 vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gauteng administered 6206 vaccines, KwaZulu-Natal 2951, Mpumalanga 1896, North West 1265, Western Cape 894, Limpopo 889, Free State 499, Eastern Cape 300 and Northern Cape administered 198 vaccines in the last 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>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<p><strong id=\"strong-f9cdf23f58edbbb4a017c073c9f0ecfa\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town &#8211; South Africa recorded 4 482 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with 82 related deaths. \u201cToday the institute reports 4 482 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 526 054,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in a [&hellip;]<\/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-914831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914831","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=914831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}