{"id":204794,"date":"2021-10-12T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/over-10-million-adults-in-sa-now-fully-vaccinated\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T07:36:00","slug":"over-10-million-adults-in-sa-now-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/over-10-million-adults-in-sa-now-fully-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 10 million adults in SA now fully vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202110\/youngfinal_0.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa is home to over 10 million adults who are now fully vaccinated as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after 139 899 either received the one dose of the Johnson &amp; Johnson or two-dose Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are now 10 059 118 eligible citizens who are fully jabbed, which translates to 25.28% of the country\u2019s adult population.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, the country distributed 189 528 new COVID-19 doses in the past 24 hours, pushing the total to 19 242 116.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa is 2 912 346 with 201 new infections reported.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases were logged in KwaZulu-Natal (57), followed by Gauteng (44), Western Cape (33) and Eastern Cape (28).<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), this increase represents a 3.3% positivity rate, adding that the seven-day moving average number of new cases by provinces have decreased.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 29 more people succumbed to the respiratory disease, pushing the tally to 88 346 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an increase of 52 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recovery rate stands at 95.9% after 2 791 794 patients recuperated.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, as of 11 October 2021, there have been 237 383 711 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4 842 716 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is home to over 10 million adults who are now fully vaccinated as of Monday. This comes after 139 899 either received the one dose of the Johnson &amp; Johnson or two-dose Pfizer vaccine. This means there are now 10 059 118 eligible citizens who are fully jabbed, which translates to 25.28% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204795,"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-204794","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\/over-10-million-adults-in-sa-now-fully-vaccinated.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204794","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=204794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}