{"id":856,"date":"2022-01-07T00:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:24:56","slug":"coronavirus-south-africa-health-department-records-covid-19-deaths-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/coronavirus-south-africa-health-department-records-covid-19-deaths-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; South Africa: Health Department Records COVID-19 Deaths Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Provinces like the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal account to 476 historical combined deaths in patients with documented SARS-Cov-2 infection<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PRETORIA, South Africa, January 6, 2022\/ &#8212; The Department of Health has today recorded over 500 COVID-19 deaths due to going audit exercise conducted by provinces across the country to address a backlog of COVID-19 mortality and new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of 551 deaths recorded today, only 45 have occurred in the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provinces like the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal account to 476 historical combined deaths in patients with documented SARS-Cov-2 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The identification of these historic deaths is part of the process to align the provincial death line list with excess deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The provincial COVID-19 dashboards reflect COVID-19 deaths by date of death rather than by date reported, and provides the most accurate trends in deaths in patients with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic of South Africa, Department of Health.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SOURCE<\/strong><br>Republic of South Africa, Department of Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provinces like the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal account to 476 historical combined deaths in patients with documented SARS-Cov-2 infection. PRETORIA, South Africa, January 6, 2022\/ &#8212; The Department of Health has today recorded over 500 COVID-19 deaths due to going audit exercise conducted by provinces across the country to address a backlog of COVID-19 mortality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[700,703,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanewsradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}