{"id":915765,"date":"2022-01-12T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/more-than-6-700-new-covid-19-cases-181-deaths-in-sa-on-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T21:02:12","slug":"more-than-6-700-new-covid-19-cases-181-deaths-in-sa-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/more-than-6-700-new-covid-19-cases-181-deaths-in-sa-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 6 700 new Covid-19 cases, 181 deaths in SA on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – A total of 6 762 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in South Africa on Wednesday, along with a further 181 deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 6 762 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 540 891,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases states on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Under 43 500 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, and taking into account the new cases recorded, represents a 15.5% positivity rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 181 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 92 830 to date,\u201d according to NICD.<\/p>\n

Western Cape contributed the majority of Wednesday\u2019s cases, followed by Gauteng and then KwaZulu-Natal – the three provinces have consistently produced the majority of new cases each day in South Africa and is also South Africa\u2019s top three populated provinces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NICD reveals the overwhelming majority of Wednesday\u2019s tests came from the private sector (56.8%).<\/p>\n

Source: National Health Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A further 316 more patients were admitted to hospitals across the country in the last 24 hours. However, South Africa\u2019s current hospital admissions have dropped, a trend experienced since Monday.<\/p>\n

Current hospital admissions per day :<\/p>\n

Monday: 8 783<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tuesday: 8 535<\/p>\n

Wednesday: 8 513<\/p>\n

Despite current hospital admissions decreasing since Monday, South Africa\u2019s new Covid-19 cases, testing and deaths have all risen per day since Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lastly, a total of 72 871 vaccines were administered across the country – Gauteng comes in first with 24 006, followed by KwaZulu-Natal (11 322) and then the Western Cape (10 054).<\/p>\n

Breakdown of new cases per province:<\/h2>\n
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  • Western Cape: 1 910<\/li>\n
  • Gauteng: 1 454<\/li>\n
  • KwaZulu-Natal: 1 219<\/li>\n
  • Eastern Cape: 762<\/li>\n
  • Limpopo: 350<\/li>\n
  • Free State: 304<\/li>\n
  • North West: 260<\/li>\n
  • Mpumalanga: 254<\/li>\n
  • Northern Cape: 249<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Cape Town – A total of 6 762 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in South Africa on Wednesday, along with a further 181 deaths. \u201cToday the institute reports 6 762 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 540 891,\u201d the National […]<\/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-915765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915765","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=915765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}