{"id":198817,"date":"2021-08-18T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-administers-9-753-138-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:03:24","slug":"sa-administers-9-753-138-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-administers-9-753-138-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"SA administers 9 753 138 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202108\/4old.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has to date administered 9&nbsp;753&nbsp;138 vaccines, with 181&nbsp;862 of these being administered on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 138&nbsp;997 Pfizer and 42&nbsp;865 Johnson and Johnson vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa has recorded 10 685 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;624 254.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 20.4% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the National Department of Health, a further 553 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 77 993 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from the Western Cape (26%), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (21%).<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Cape accounted for 17%; Gauteng 11%; Free State, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape 6% each; North West 5%, and Limpopo 2% of the new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of cases today (10 685) is higher than yesterday (7 983) and lower than the average number of new cases per day over the seven preceding days (11 075). The seven-day moving average daily number of cases has increased,\u201d the NICD said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 526 (compared to Monday\u2019s 331) hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A total of&nbsp;15 685 889&nbsp;tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors. &nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has to date administered 9&nbsp;753&nbsp;138 vaccines, with 181&nbsp;862 of these being administered on Tuesday. A total of 138&nbsp;997 Pfizer and 42&nbsp;865 Johnson and Johnson vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, South Africa has recorded 10 685 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2&nbsp;624 254.&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198818,"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-198817","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\/08\/sa-administers-9-753-138-vaccines.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198817","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=198817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}