Gauteng welcomes 225 New Year’s Day babies

South Africa’s most populous province has a few new additions on New Year’s Day, after the Gauteng health department revealed that 225 babies were born (between 12am and 12pm) in the province’s hospitals and community healthcare centres.

Of the 225 babies born, 121 were boys and 104 were girls. The majority of the births happened at Tembisa Hospital, with 22 births recorded.

While Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital’s trauma unit was completely empty for the first time on New Year’s Day, its maternity ward recorded 15 births.

MEC @DrMokgethi is with the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital team from the Labour ward to welcome New Years babies. pic.twitter.com/u8YWBlDsvy

— Gauteng Health (@GautengHealth) January 1, 2021

Elsewhere in the country, KwaZulu-Natal recorded 47 New Year’s Day babies, with 22 boys and 25 girls born.