{"id":204285,"date":"2021-10-07T09:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/over-200-000-covid-19-jabs-administered-in-24-hours\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T07:25:48","slug":"over-200-000-covid-19-jabs-administered-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/over-200-000-covid-19-jabs-administered-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 000 COVID-19 jabs administered in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202110\/6old.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has administered over 200 000 new COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, pushing the total to 18&nbsp;510&nbsp;943 doses that have been given since the start of the country\u2019s inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Department of Health distributed 212&nbsp;790 vaccines in the past 24 hours, compared with the previous day\u2019s total of 197&nbsp;698.<\/p>\n<p>There are 153 864 adults who were fully vaccinated since the last reporting cycle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the department, this means there are now 9&nbsp;526 247 eligible citizens who have received Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s single-dose shot or the two-dose Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 1 149 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 908&nbsp;768.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new infections were logged in the Western Cape after 258 people were confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The province is followed by 208 cases in KwaZulu-Natal, 156 in Gauteng, 133 in Free State and 132 in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase represents a 3.2% positivity rate,\u201d the institute said, adding that the seven-day moving average daily number of cases has decreased.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the country registered a further 59 COVID-19 related fatalities, bringing the death toll to 87 981 to date.<\/p>\n<p>The dashboard also shows there were 103 new hospital admissions in the past day, which means 5 874 patients are currently receiving treatment for COVID-19 in both public and private health institutions across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 6 October 2021, there have been 235&nbsp;673 032 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4&nbsp;814 651 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, as of 3 October 2021, countries have managed to administer 6&nbsp;188&nbsp;903 420 vaccine doses. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has administered over 200 000 new COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, pushing the total to 18&nbsp;510&nbsp;943 doses that have been given since the start of the country\u2019s inoculation programme. 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