{"id":276531,"date":"2021-06-16T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/s-africa-covid-infections-hit-five-month-high\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:30:01","slug":"s-africa-covid-infections-hit-five-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/s-africa-covid-infections-hit-five-month-high\/","title":{"rendered":"#S.Africa COVID infections hit five-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#S.Africa COVID infections hit five-month high<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2020\/16-covid.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2020\/16-covid.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2020\/16-covid.jpg\" alt=\"covid\" title=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s COVID-19 infections jumped by 13,246 on Wednesday, the highest daily total in five months, government said.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                        The figure is almost double the weekly average for the past seven days, and compares to 8,436 cases recorded the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These concerning figures represent the highest number of daily cases and positivity rate recorded since January 2021,&#8221; the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday extended a nightime curfew and limited alcohols sales in a bid to contain a third wave of infections.<\/p>\n<p>The country, the worst affected by the pandemic on the continent, has seen the daily figures for new cases double over the past two weeks, while hospital admissions have climbed by nearly 60 percent over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The spike comes as South Africa struggles to roll out its inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>The new infections take the total cases to 1,774,312 including 58,118 fatalities.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        Fighting COVID-19 surge, South Africa increases restrictions\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2021 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 S.Africa COVID infections hit five-month high (2021, June 16)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 16 June 2021<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2021-06-safrica-covid-infections-five-month-high.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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