{"id":196251,"date":"2021-07-27T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-administers-215-349-covid-19-vaccine-doses\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:35:09","slug":"sa-administers-215-349-covid-19-vaccine-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-administers-215-349-covid-19-vaccine-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"SA administers 215 349 COVID-19 vaccine doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/jabinarm5snipping.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>There were 215&nbsp;349 people who received their COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, which brings the total number of administered jabs to 6&nbsp;613&nbsp;704.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, of the latest distributed shots, 44&nbsp;470 people received the Johnson &amp; Johnson, while 170&nbsp;879 received the Pfizer vaccine. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed the 70&nbsp;000 mark after 243 more people lost their lives to the respiratory disease.<\/p>\n<p>This means that South Africa has now recorded 70&nbsp;018 fatalities to date.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the country detected 5 683 new COVID-19 cases, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 383&nbsp;490, translating to a 24.3% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng accounted for 1&nbsp;559 new infections, followed by 1&nbsp;192 in the Western Cape and 832 in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>The NICD has also noted an increase of 479 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The information is based on the 14 587&nbsp;196 tests of which 23&nbsp;349 were performed since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organisation, as of 26 July, there have been 194&nbsp;080 019 confirmed global cases of COVID-19, 4&nbsp;162 304 deaths, and 3&nbsp;696&nbsp;135 440 administered vaccine doses. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were 215&nbsp;349 people who received their COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, which brings the total number of administered jabs to 6&nbsp;613&nbsp;704. According to the Department of Health, of the latest distributed shots, 44&nbsp;470 people received the Johnson &amp; Johnson, while 170&nbsp;879 received the Pfizer vaccine. &nbsp; Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-196251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sa-administers-215-349-covid-19-vaccine-doses.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}