{"id":6738,"date":"2020-03-27T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:00:49","slug":"sa-confirms-first-two-deaths-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2020\/03\/27\/sa-confirms-first-two-deaths-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"SA confirms first two deaths from Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>South Africa has recorded its first two deaths from COVID-19.<\/h4>\n<p>Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize revealed this in a statement on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;this morning, we wake South Africans up with sad news that we have our first deaths resulting from Covid-19&#8221; said Mkhize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today marks day 1 of the 21 day national lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in an effort to curb the rapid spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhize has committed to give further details on the deaths and the current number of infections which he has revealed have surpassed the 1000 mark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; We will give more details later on, when we announce the latest confirmed COVID-19 cases,which have increased from yesterday&#8217;s number and have tipped the 1000 mark.&#8221;added the minister<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded its first two deaths from COVID-19. Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize revealed this in a statement on Friday morning. &#8220;this morning, we wake South Africans up with sad news that we have our first deaths resulting from Covid-19&#8221; said Mkhize. Today marks day 1 of the ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[576,149,577,578],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-die-from-covid-19-in-sa","tag-coronavirus-sa","tag-sa-covid-19","tag-sa-records-first-deaths-from-covid-19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}