{"id":251689,"date":"2020-04-24T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/251689\/ekurhuleni-north-records-most-covid-19-cases-in-the-metro\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:36:02","slug":"ekurhuleni-north-records-most-covid-19-cases-in-the-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2020\/04\/24\/ekurhuleni-north-records-most-covid-19-cases-in-the-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekurhuleni North records most Covid-19 cases in the metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 265 cases of Covid-19 had been reported in Ekurhuleni.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni North, which includes Kempton Park, Edenvale, Thembisa and Bapsfontein, had the highest number of cases in the metro at 111.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ekurhuleni South (Alberton, Boksburg, Germiston, Bedfordview, Katlehong, Vosloorus, Thokoza and Duduza) recorded 74 cases, while Ekurhuleni East (Springs, Benoni, Brakpan, Kwa-Thema, Tsakani, Daveyton, Etwatwa, Wattville, Nigel and Alra Park) had 55 cases.<\/p>\n<p>There were 25 unallocated cases.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>ALSO READ: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/251755\/metro-partners-with-churches-to-get-food-parcels-out\/\">Metro partners with churches to get food parcels out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Gauteng, Johannesburg still has the most cases (726), followed by Ekurhuleni (265), Tshwane (127), Sedibeng (11), West Rand (41) and unallocated (54).<\/p>\n<p>There were seven deaths while 826 people recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of cases in Gauteng were at 1 224 on April 22. Out of the 7 479 contacts traced, 2 975 people have completed the 14-day monitoring period with no symptoms reported.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 46 people in hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health workers<\/strong><br \/>\nBy April 22, 28 Gauteng health employees have tested positive. All cases are mild and did not require hospitalisation, except for one. This person was discharged on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>The first cohort of workers who tested positive contracted the virus through social circles and not in the workplace, said Gauteng Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a number of recoveries so far. Eleven people have recovered and most are back at work. The rest are being monitored.<\/p>\n<p>The department has sufficient PPE and are continiously replenishing stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow us on:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30yabQ2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204472\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/06\/twitter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30yabQ2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204475\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/06\/Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30yabQ2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204476\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/06\/Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30yabQ2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204477\" src=\"https:\/\/kemptonexpress.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2019\/06\/Youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/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='0a00165d04c84a48150a1679aa78d4b4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gauteng, there were seven deaths while 826 people recovered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":251690,"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":[2501,30701,30507,31161,2060],"class_list":["post-251689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-city-of-ekurhuleni","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-figures","tag-kempton-express"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["city of ekurhuleni","Coronavirus","Covid-19","covid-19 figures","kempton express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251689","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\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}