{"id":203878,"date":"2021-10-04T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T08:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-administers-52-556-new-covid-19-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T08:05:47","slug":"sa-administers-52-556-new-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-administers-52-556-new-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"SA administers 52 556 new COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202110\/covid.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa administered 52&nbsp;556 COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, 43&nbsp;137 more shots compared to last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, this means the country has now distributed 17&nbsp;875&nbsp;187 vaccines since the start of the inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa now has 9&nbsp;075 189 fully vaccinated adults, of which 37&nbsp;982 people either received the Johnson &amp; Johnson one-shot vaccine or the second dose of the Pfizer jab.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as of Sunday, the cumulative number of COVID-19 identified cases identified stands at 2 906 422 after 809 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Of the new cases, the majority of new infections were recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (177), followed by the Western Cape (156), Eastern Cape (127), Gauteng (97), Northern Cape (87).<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said the new infections came at a 3.4% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 27 more people succumbed to the disease, pushing the tally to 87 780 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The number of patients who recuperated stands at 2 906&nbsp;422, translating to a recovery rate of 95.6%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NICD, there were new 30 hospital admissions in the past day, which means 6&nbsp;268 patients are currently receiving treatment for COVID-19 in both the public and private health institutions across the country. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa administered 52&nbsp;556 COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, 43&nbsp;137 more shots compared to last Sunday. According to the Department of Health, this means the country has now distributed 17&nbsp;875&nbsp;187 vaccines since the start of the inoculation programme. South Africa now has 9&nbsp;075 189 fully vaccinated adults, of which 37&nbsp;982 people either received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203879,"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-203878","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\/10\/sa-administers-52-556-new-covid-19-vaccines.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203878","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=203878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}