{"id":916913,"date":"2022-01-17T04:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/covid-19-in-sa-2-597-new-infections-and-25-deaths-recorded\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:59:04","slug":"covid-19-in-sa-2-597-new-infections-and-25-deaths-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/covid-19-in-sa-2-597-new-infections-and-25-deaths-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 in SA: 2 597 new infections and 25 deaths recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SOUTH Africa registered 2 597 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with 25 related deaths occurring in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 2 597 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 559 230,\u201d said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in a statement released on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The NICD indicated that this increase represents a 10.6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n

There has been an ongoing audit exercise conducted across all of South Africa\u2019s nine provinces to address a backlog of cases and deaths, the Department of Health said in a statement earlier this month.<\/p>\n

“Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), there may be a backlog of Covid-19 mortality cases reported. Today, the NDoH reports 86 deaths and of these, 25 occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 93 364 to date,\u201c the NICD added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The institute said that 21 797 292 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

The majority of new cases today are from Western Cape (28%) followed by Gauteng (23%). <\/p>\n

KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 21%; Eastern Cape accounted 6%; Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape each accounted for 5% respectively; North West for 4%; and Free State for 3% of today\u2019s new cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the last 24 hours, a total of 22 473 vaccine doses were administered in the country.<\/p>\n

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SOUTH Africa registered 2 597 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with 25 related deaths occurring in the past 24 to 48 hours. \u201cToday the institute reports 2 597 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 559 230,\u201d said the National Institute for […]<\/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-916913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916913","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=916913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}