{"id":42764,"date":"2022-03-02T21:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=42764"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T21:05:19","slug":"south-africa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/south-africa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa records 785 new COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/728990751129321472\/profile_1.jpg);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>TDPel Media<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 785 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 674 042. In a statement on Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said this increase represents a 5.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (41%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape each accounting for 20%. Mpumalanga accounted for 6%, Free State and North West accounted for 5%, respectively, Eastern Cape accounted for 2%, Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% of the new cases. \u201cDue to the ongoing audit exercise by the &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/871853648415588352?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by TDPel Media South Africa has recorded 785 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 674 042. In a statement on Monday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said this increase represents a 5.7% positivity rate. The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (41%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/south-africa-records-785-new-covid-19-cases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Africa records 785 new COVID-19 cases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42765,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42764\/revisions\/42765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}