{"id":250894,"date":"2020-04-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/250894\/50-more-covid-19-cases-recorded-in-ekurhuleni-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T05:00:00","slug":"50-more-covid-19-cases-recorded-in-ekurhuleni-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2020\/04\/22\/50-more-covid-19-cases-recorded-in-ekurhuleni-2\/","title":{"rendered":"50 more Covid-19 cases recorded in Ekurhuleni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of positive Covid-19 cases in Ekurhuleni has risen to 246 by April 20.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures released by the Gauteng Department of Health on Tuesday, the number of cases in Gauteng had increased from 1 018 on April 17 to 1 170 on April 20.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Seven deaths had been recorded so far while 574 patients had recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures for Gauteng are (with the figures released on April 17 in brackets):<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Johannesburg: 698 (599)<\/p>\n<p>Tshwane: 122 (110)<\/p>\n<p>West Rand: 39 (35)<\/p>\n<p>Sedibeng: 11 (10)<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni: 246 (196)<\/p>\n<p>Unallocated: 54 (68)<\/p>\n<p>Total: 1 018 (909)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-250482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/04\/gautenghealth_95958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='101353c78a277e5c732cf00e8475fd3a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven deaths had been recorded so far while 574 patients had recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":250895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Kempton Express","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[30507,31132,31133,2060],"class_list":["post-250894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-covid-19","tag-ekurhuleni-covid-19-cases","tag-gauteng-covid-19-cases","tag-kempton-express"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Covid-19","ekurhuleni covid-19 cases","gauteng covid-19 cases","kempton express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}