{"id":7743,"date":"2020-06-05T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:15:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:25","slug":"covid-19-sa-records-biggest-hike-in-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2020\/06\/05\/covid-19-sa-records-biggest-hike-in-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: SA records biggest hike in cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>South Africa has reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting 3 267 new cases, the biggest single-day spike yet.<\/h4>\n<p>The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now stand at 40 792.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of deaths also increased drastically with 56 people succumbing to the deadly virus. More than 820 000 people have been tested for the virus in the country&#8221;, Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said in a statement on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Cape now exceeded Gauteng by 91 cases, which brings the total number of cases in the province to 4 936. There are 4 845 infections of the respiratory disease in Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Cape remains the epicentre of the virus, recording 27 006 cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Health has since extended it&#8217;s condolences to the families of the deceased and thanked the healthcare workers who treated the patients&#8221;, Mkhize said.<\/p>\n<p>The current number of recoveries sits at 21 311, which translates to a recovery rate of 52.24%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting 3 267 new cases, the biggest single-day spike yet. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now stand at 40 792. &#8220;The number of deaths also increased drastically with 56 people succumbing to the deadly virus. ...<\/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":[605,491,152,805],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-confirmed-cases","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-zweli-mkhize"],"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\/7743","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=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/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=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}