{"id":198328,"date":"2021-08-13T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/166-902-vaccines-administered-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:12:00","slug":"166-902-vaccines-administered-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/166-902-vaccines-administered-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"166 902 vaccines administered on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202108\/vaccine.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A total 166&nbsp;902 COVID-19 vaccinations were administered on Thursday bringing the total number of jabs administered in South Africa to 9&nbsp;185&nbsp;756, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>The NICD further reported that 14 271&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;568 511.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases reported on Thursday were from the Western Cape (26%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (25%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGauteng province accounted for 16%; Eastern Cape accounted for 11%; Mpumalanga accounted for 6%; Free State and North West each accounted for 5% respectively; Limpopo Province accounted for 3% and Northern Cape accounted for 2% of today\u2019s new cases,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a&nbsp;22.5%&nbsp;positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further&nbsp;473&nbsp;COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to&nbsp;76 247&nbsp;to date,\u201d said the NICD.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 15&nbsp;426 667&nbsp;tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The NICD said the total number of cases on Thursday was higher than Wednesday and higher than the average number of new cases per day over the seven preceding days. The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has increased.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of&nbsp;579&nbsp;hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total 166&nbsp;902 COVID-19 vaccinations were administered on Thursday bringing the total number of jabs administered in South Africa to 9&nbsp;185&nbsp;756, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD). The NICD further reported that 14 271&nbsp;new COVID-19 cases have been identified in South Africa. This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;568 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-198328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198328","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=198328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}