{"id":205053,"date":"2021-10-14T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/35-of-the-adult-population-now-vaccinated-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T08:16:35","slug":"35-of-the-adult-population-now-vaccinated-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/35-of-the-adult-population-now-vaccinated-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"35% of the adult population now vaccinated in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A total of 34.7% of the adults in South Africa have received at least one dose of the Pfizer or the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Health, 19 668 177 doses have been administered to 13 799 325 eligible vaccinees since the start of the country\u2019s inoculation rollout programme.<\/p>\n

This comes after 196 696 jabs were distributed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the country has 10 370 743 people who have been fully vaccinated, translating to 26.06% of the country\u2019s adult population.<\/p>\n

Of these, 145 444 people were fully jabbed in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The dashboard shows that the Western Cape is leading the race with 43.55% of its adults who have received at least one dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n

The province is followed by the Eastern Cape (39.84%), Limpopo (39.72%), Free State (39.38%), Northern Cape (34.95%), North West (31.70%), Gauteng (31.65%), KwaZulu-Natal (30.45%), and Mpumalanga (27.91%).  <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 942 new COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

The Western Cape has recorded the majority of new confirmed COVID-19 cases after 220 people contracted the virus.<\/p>\n

The province is followed by Gauteng, which accounted for 172 additional infections, 142 in KwaZulu-Natal, 103 in Free State, 94 in the Eastern Cape and 93 in the Northern Cape.<\/p>\n

This means there is now a total of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 913 880.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis increase represents a 2.4% positivity rate,\u201d the institute said, adding that there has been an increase of 70 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

In addition, 37 more people succumbed to the disease, pushing the death toll to 88 466 since the outbreak.<\/p>\n

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

Globally, as of 13 October 2021, there have been 238 521 855 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4 863 818 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/p>\n

According to the WHO\u2019s weekly epidemiological update, the numbers of weekly COVID-19 cases and deaths has continued to decline since late August.<\/p>\n

The WHO said over 2.8 million new cases and over 46 000 new deaths were reported during the week of 4 to 10 October 2021, representing a 7% and 10% decrease respectively, as compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n

Apart from the European region, all the other regions reported a decline, the agency added. <\/p>\n

The data shows that the largest drop in new weekly cases was reported from the African region (32%), followed by the Western Pacific region (26%).<\/p>\n

In addition, the new weekly deaths reported also declined in all regions except for the European region, which reported an increase of 11% as compared to the previous week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe largest decline in weekly deaths was reported from the Western Pacific and the African regions, with both showing a 34% decline as compared to the previous week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States (653 837 new cases, 12% decrease), the United Kingdom (249 699 new cases, similar to the previous week), Turkey (205 266 new cases, similar to the previous week), Russia (188 829 new cases, 14% increase), and India (139 572 new cases, 13% decrease).<\/p>\n

Globally, no new countries, territories or areas reported cases with variants of concern (VOCs) in the past week.<\/p>\n

As of 12 October, the Delta variant has been reported across all six WHO regions, in 191 countries. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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