{"id":202044,"date":"2021-09-15T09:44:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-administers-more-than-15m-covid-19-jabs\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:44:41","slug":"sa-administers-more-than-15m-covid-19-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-administers-more-than-15m-covid-19-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"SA administers more than 15m COVID-19 jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa has now crossed the 15 million mark for the number of COVID-19 doses administered.<\/p>\n

This comes after 248 236 jabs were given in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 15 188 787.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there are now 7 473 903 fully vaccinated adults, of which 133 719 either received a single-dose Johnson & Johnson or the second shot of the Pfizer jab on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Health Department statistics show that more women are being inoculated than men.  <\/p>\n

According to the department\u2019s latest data, Gauteng has the highest number of vaccinated individuals, of which 2 877 747 people have already been immunised.<\/p>\n

The province is followed by KwaZulu-Natal (1 831 515), Western Cape (1 795 336), Eastern Cape (1 326 785) and Limpopo (1 157 916).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said the country recorded 3 699 new COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

This brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 864 534, while 323 new hospital admissions were reported in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The statistics also show that a further 300 patients succumbed to the respiratory disease, pushing the death toll to 85 302 to date.<\/p>\n

Globally, as of 14 September 2021, there have been 225 024 781 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4 636 153 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n

Global view<\/strong><\/p>\n

With nearly four million new cases reported globally in the past week, the WHO said this represents the first \u201csubstantial\u201d decline in weekly cases in more than two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll regions reported declines in new cases as compared to the previous week,\u201d the WHO\u2019s weekly epidemiological update pointed out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the organisation said the number of reported deaths has also declined compared to the previous week, with just over 62 000 new fatalities logged.<\/p>\n

However, the report indicated that the African region logged an upsurge in the number of weekly deaths (7%), while South-East Asia reported the largest dip (20%).<\/p>\n

The American and Eastern Mediterranean regions reported slightly smaller decreases, 9% and 6% respectively, while the numbers of deaths reported in the European and the Western Pacific Regions were similar to last week.<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States (1 034 836 new cases, 20% decrease), the United Kingdom (256 051 new cases, 5% increase), India (248 248 new cases, 15% decrease), Iran (172 030 new cases, 17% decrease), and Turkey (158 236 new cases, 6% increase).<\/p>\n

The Delta variant, which is significantly more contagious than the original variant of COVID-19, has now been reported in 180 countries since it was first reported in October 2020. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa has now crossed the 15 million mark for the number of COVID-19 doses administered. This comes after 248 236 jabs were given in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 15 188 787. Meanwhile, there are now 7 473 903 fully vaccinated adults, of which 133 719 either received a single-dose Johnson & Johnson or the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202045,"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-202044","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\/09\/sa-administers-more-than-15m-covid-19-jabs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202044","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=202044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}