{"id":44836,"date":"2022-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=c0398f2e622b2e370e34d07307d327c8"},"modified":"2022-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"2 650 new COVID-19 cases recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>South Africa has recorded 2 650 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 798 413.<\/P><P>This increase represents a 21% positivity rate.<\/P><P>\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports seven deaths and of these, five occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100 370 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday.<\/P><P>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng (51%) followed by KwaZulu-Natal (23%).<\/P><P>Western Cape accounted for 13%; Free State accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga accounted for 3%; Eastern Cape and North West each accounted for 2% respectively; and Limpopo and Northern Cape each accounted for 1% respectively of the new cases.<\/P><P>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is 21.0%, and is lower than yesterday (22.0%). The 7-day average is 20.7% today, and is higher than yesterday 20.4%. The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has increased,\u201d the NICD said.<\/P><P>There has been an increase of 32 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/P><P>A total of 24 505 584 tests have been conducted in both the public and private sectors. <\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 2 650 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 798 413.This increase represents a 21% positivity rate.\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports seven deaths and of these, f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2 650 new COVID-19 cases recorded - South Africa Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2 650 new COVID-19 cases recorded - South Africa Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Africa has recorded 2 650 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 798 413.This increase represents a 21% positivity rate.\u201cToday, the National Department of Health (NDoH) reports seven deaths and of these, f...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"shadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ed2a8470fb6dce16b525ad4dffe66cd2\"},\"headline\":\"2 650 new COVID-19 cases recorded\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-03T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/2-650-new-covid-19-cases-recorded\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Health &amp; 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