{"id":917800,"date":"2022-01-19T22:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/more-than-4-300-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T22:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:29:53","slug":"more-than-4-300-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/more-than-4-300-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 4 300 Covid-19 infections recorded in SA on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN \u2013 South Africa records more than 4 300 Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, in addition to 36 related deaths in the last 24-48 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 4 322 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 568 900,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The institute further recorded a 10.6% positivity rate considering the country\u2019s new cases and a total of 40 654 being conducted.<\/p>\n

For the third day in a row since Monday, Gauteng contributed the majority of South Africa\u2019s new cases followed by the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

Gauteng has, however, also administered the majority of South Africa\u2019s vaccinations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some 74 305 vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours, of which 21 417 were conducted in Gauteng.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue 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 156 deaths and of these 36 occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 93 707 to date,\u201d the institute says.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 162 patients were admitted to hospitals across South Africa\u2019s private and public sectors on Wednesday. But, the total current hospital admissions continue to decrease per day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

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  • Monday: 7 700<\/li>\n
  • Tuesday: 7 363<\/li>\n
  • Wednesday: 7 199<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Breakdown of SA\u2019s new cases per province:<\/h2>\n
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    • Gauteng: 1 047<\/li>\n
    • Western Cape: 982<\/li>\n
    • KwaZulu-Natal: 706<\/li>\n
    • Limpopo: 477<\/li>\n
    • Eastern Cape: 330<\/li>\n
    • North West: 223<\/li>\n
    • Free State: 196<\/li>\n
    • Mpumalanga: 196<\/li>\n
    • Northern Cape: 165<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      CAPE TOWN \u2013 South Africa records more than 4 300 Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, in addition to 36 related deaths in the last 24-48 hours. \u201cToday the institute reports 4 322 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 568 900,\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-917800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917800","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=917800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}