{"id":462968,"date":"2021-01-23T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=462968"},"modified":"2021-01-23T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:03:15","slug":"government-monitoring-decline-in-covid-19-transmissions-which-is-key-to-reviewing-lockdown-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/462968\/government-monitoring-decline-in-covid-19-transmissions-which-is-key-to-reviewing-lockdown-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Government ‘monitoring’ decline in Covid-19 transmissions, which is key to reviewing lockdown in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Health says it has observed a decline in Covid-19 transmissions in South Africa over the past week.<\/p>\n

This is evidenced by a reduction daily cases, a steadily decreasing positivity rate (19% today from a high of 36% in at the peak of the second wave), and promising evidence of downward deflection of admission numbers, it said.<\/p>\n

“We are hoping that this decline in numbers is going to bring the much-required reprieve to our overwhelmed health facilities, both in the public and private sector.<\/p>\n

“We are closely monitoring this to inform our process of recommending the review of some of the restrictions that are currently in place.”<\/p>\n

The Department said it was grateful to all South Africans for playing their role in mitigating the devastating effects of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

“We do, however, continue to caution that the transmission rate is still very high and we need to ensure that it is reduced to an acceptable level before we can ease restrictions.<\/p>\n

“It is therefore imperative that we do not grow fatigued and continue to focus on the things we know provide protection – the strict wearing of masks, social distancing and regular sanitisation of hands and surfaces.”<\/p>\n

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On Friday (22 January), South Africa reported 11,762 new cases with a total of 62,251 tests conducted. This\u00a0represents a 19% positivity rate.<\/p>\n

The cumulative number of Covid-19 cases identified in South Africa is now 1,392,568. 575\u00a0more Covid-19 related deaths were reported, bringing the total deaths in the country to 40,076.<\/p>\n

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Read: South Africa\u2019s first major Covid-19 vaccine supplier says that doses are ready to ship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Health says it has observed a decline in Covid-19 transmissions in South Africa over the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":460748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-462968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462978,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462968\/revisions\/462978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}