{"id":2937,"date":"2022-04-25T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblemedia.co\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:01:35","slug":"new-covid-19-cases-surpass-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblemedia.co\/index.php\/2022\/04\/25\/new-covid-19-cases-surpass-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 cases surpass 3000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 3 222 new COVID-19 cases in the country over the past 24 hour reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases represent a positivity rate of some 16.7% &#8211; bringing the cumulative number of cases in the country to more than 3.7 million since the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The provincial breakdown for new cases is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Gauteng leads the pack with 1727 new cases<\/li><li>KwaZulu-Natal follows with at least 818 new cases<\/li><li>In the Western Cape, 333 new cases were recorded<\/li><li>Some 83 new cases were recorded in Mpumalanga<\/li><li>In the Free State, 80 new cases were detected<\/li><li>The Eastern Cape recorded 68 more cases<\/li><li>At least 63 new cases were recorded in the North West<\/li><li>The Northern Cape reported at least 29 more cases<\/li><li>There were 21 more cases recorded in Limpopo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\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 [department] reports five deaths and of these, two occurred in the past 24 \u2013 48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 100 303 to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 21 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours,\u201d the NICD said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, some 3375 more vaccines were administered over the past reporting period \u2013 the majority of which were administered in Gauteng and the Western Cape, followed by the North West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of people who have received at elast one jab of the COVID-19 vaccines now stands at some 34.6 million jabs in arms. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo:&nbsp;<\/em>Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported at least 3 222 new COVID-19 cases in the country over the past 24 hour reporting period. 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