{"id":919584,"date":"2022-01-25T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/under-3200-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:31:15","slug":"under-3200-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/under-3200-new-covid-19-infections-recorded-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Under 3,200 new Covid-19 infections recorded in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town \u2013 Fewer than 3,200 new Covid-19 infections were recorded in South Africa on Tuesday, with 23 deaths in the past 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the institute reports 3,197 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,585,888,\u201d the National Insitute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most of Tuesday\u2019s new infections were recorded in Gauteng (898), KwaZulu-Natal (483), and the Western Cape (460) in that order.<\/p>\n

NICD data reveals a spike in cases from Limpopo on Tuesday (421) compared to Monday (85).<\/p>\n

A total of 36,216 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours, illustrating the consistent change in South Africa\u2019s testing behaviour after a Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The institute reports a positivity rate of 8.8 percent after taking into account Tuesday\u2019s total number of tests and new infections.<\/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 132 deaths and of these, 23 occurred in the past 24 to 48 hours,\u201d NICD says.<\/p>\n

An additional 179 hospital admissions occurred in the past 24 hours. However, on a daily basis the total number of currently admitted patients continues to decrease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The total number of patients currently admitted in hospitals per day:<\/p>\n

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  • Monday: 6,387<\/li>\n
  • Tuesday: 6,284<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Meanwhile, the number of inoculations increased on Tuesday. NICD reports 82,572 vaccines administered in the past 24 hours, with Gauteng continuing to administer more vaccines compared to any other province.<\/p>\n

    Breakdown of SA\u2019s new cases per province:<\/h2>\n
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    • Gauteng: 898<\/li>\n
    • KwaZulu-Natal: 483<\/li>\n
    • Western Cape: 460<\/li>\n
    • Limpopo: 421<\/li>\n
    • Mpumalanga: 253<\/li>\n
    • Eastern Cape: 235<\/li>\n
    • Free State: 208<\/li>\n
    • North West: 182<\/li>\n
    • Northern Cape: 57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Cape Town \u2013 Fewer than 3,200 new Covid-19 infections were recorded in South Africa on Tuesday, with 23 deaths in the past 24 to 48 hours. \u201cToday the institute reports 3,197 new Covid-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3,585,888,\u201d the National Insitute 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-919584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919584","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=919584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}