{"id":1769,"date":"2022-01-20T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblemedia.co\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:42:52","slug":"over-4-000-new-covid-19-cases-recorded-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblemedia.co\/index.php\/2022\/01\/20\/over-4-000-new-covid-19-cases-recorded-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4 000 new COVID-19 cases recorded in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 40 654 COVID-19 tests have been conducted, with&nbsp;4&nbsp;322 new cases being identified in South Africa in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 568 900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said this increase represents a 10.6% positivity rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the ongoing audit exercise by the National Department of Health (NDoH), the institute said there may be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Health said 156 deaths have been reported and of these, 36 occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours, and this brings the total fatalities to 93 707 deaths to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> UPDATE: A total of 40,654 tests were conducted in the last 24hrs, with 4,322 new cases, representing a 10.6% positivity rate. 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