{"id":121645,"date":"2021-05-06T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121645"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:19:45","slug":"covid-19-south-africa-records-2073-new-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121645","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: South Africa records 2,073 new cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/8v-PhFOYfSvaU8n-PXA3o1vTxoi79xRH-QjKY5GtzHYEdefr5zR_w8qKiYjO_Il8qmOZaLXi3inbbnxKwFqdfqk=s1200\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/8v-PhFOYfSvaU8n-PXA3o1vTxoi79xRH-QjKY5GtzHYEdefr5zR_w8qKiYjO_Il8qmOZaLXi3inbbnxKwFqdfqk=s750\" alt=\"SA on Wednesday recorded more than 2,000 new Covid-19 cases in a single day for the first time since mid-February.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, May 6 (NNN-SANEWS) &#8212; The cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa now stands at 1,588,221, with 2,073 new cases reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of tests conducted to date is\u00a010,773,227. Of these, 33,414\u00a0tests were conducted since the last report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-six\u00a0COVID-19 related deaths have been reported as follows: Eastern Cape 4, Free State 1, Gauteng 19, KwaZulu-Natal 2, Limpopo 18 and Northern Cape 2, which brings the total to\u00a054,557 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe convey our condolences to the loved ones of the departed and thank the health care workers who treated the deceased patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cumulative recoveries now stand at\u00a01,510,385, representing a recovery rate of 95%,\u201d Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of health care workers vaccinated under the Sisonke Protocol to date is\u00a0353,181. &#8212; NNN-<strong>SAnews<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA, May 6 (NNN-SANEWS) &#8212; The cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa now stands at 1,588,221, with 2,073 new cases reported on Wednesday. The number of tests conducted to date is\u00a010,773,227. Of these, 33,414\u00a0tests were conducted since the last report. Forty-six\u00a0COVID-19 related deaths have been reported as follows: Eastern Cape 4, Free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}