{"id":37203,"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatribune.com\/?guid=70248ea41a27f879766ac2bd1c59fe7e"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","slug":"nicd-confirms-third-wave-as-infections-continue-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatribune.com\/nicd-confirms-third-wave-as-infections-continue-to-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"NICD confirms third wave as infections continue to soar"},"content":{"rendered":"
South Africa on Thursday logged 9 149 new COVID-19 cases, which represents a 15.7% positivity testing rate.<\/p>\n
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), figures from the past seven days show that South Africa is now experiencing the third wave.<\/p>\n
\u201cSouth Africa technically entered the third wave today as the national seven-day moving average incidence of 5 959 cases, which now exceeds the new wave threshold, as defined by the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC),\u201d the NICD said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The MAC, which provides recommendations on managing the COVID-19 pandemic, defines the new wave seven-day moving average threshold as 30% of the peak incidence of the previous wave.<\/p>\n
The majority of the new infections are from Gauteng, with 5 597 cases (61%), followed by the Western Cape with 932 (10%).<\/p>\n
This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1 722 086 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n
The NICD also observed an increase of 844 admissions, pushing the total to 7 300 patients in health institutions across the country.<\/p>\n
An additional 127 in-hospital deaths were reported in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The data is based on the 12 044 072 tests conducted, 58 322 of which were done since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n
To date, 1 619 011 people have been vaccinated in South Africa.<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organisation, as of 10 June 2021, there have been 174 061 995 confirmed global cases, 3 758 560 deaths and 2 156 384 616 administered vaccine doses. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa on Thursday logged 9 149 new COVID-19 cases, which represents a 15.7% positivity testing rate.According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), figures from the past seven days show that South Africa is now experiencing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n