{"id":207903,"date":"2021-11-10T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/over-13-million-adult-south-africans-now-fully-vaccinated\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T07:51:56","slug":"over-13-million-adult-south-africans-now-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/over-13-million-adult-south-africans-now-fully-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 13 million adult South Africans now fully vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Africa is now home to over 13 million adults who are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

This comes after 98 954 adults got the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the second shot of the Pfizer jab in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

According to the Department of Health\u2019s data, this pushes the total to 13 030 588 or 32.5% of the adult population who are now fully jabbed.  <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the country distributed 126 231 vaccine shots on Tuesday, of which 115 966 were given to the over 18s and 10 265 to children aged between 12 and 17.<\/p>\n

This brings all the dispersed doses to 23 402 284 to date.<\/p>\n

In addition, the country has now administered 15 688 101 first doses of which 229 604 were given to children.<\/p>\n

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) recorded 245 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 924 317.<\/p>\n

The majority of new cases were recorded in Gauteng after 85 were confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n

Gauteng is followed by 38 infections in the Western Cape, 37 in KwaZulu-Natal, 33 in Free State, 14 in Mpumalanga, 13 in the Northern Cape, 10 in the North West, eight in the Eastern Cape and seven in Limpopo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis increase represents a 0.9% positivity rate,\u201d the institute said, adding that the new infections were lower than the average number of cases per day over the seven preceding days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a further 35 COVID-19 related fatalities have been reported, pushing the death toll to 89 387.<\/p>\n

South Africa has 3 735 patients who are currently receiving hospital treatment for COVID-19, of which 34 were admitted in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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

The World Health Organisation (WHO) observed a slight upward trend of a 1% increase in new weekly global cases between 1 and 7 November 2021.<\/p>\n

According to the WHO, over 3.1 million new infections were reported during this period.<\/p>\n

The WHO European region reported a 7% increase in new weekly cases as compared to the previous week, while other regions reported declines or stable trends.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the European region logged a 10% increase in new deaths, while other regions saw declining trends.<\/p>\n

Globally, over 48 000 new deaths were reported, a 4% drop from the previous week.<\/p>\n

As of 7 November, over 249 million confirmed cases and over five million deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n

The highest numbers of new cases were reported from the United States (510 968 new cases, 3% decrease), Russia (281 305 new cases, 3% increase), the United Kingdom (252 104 new cases, 12% decrease), Turkey (197 335 new cases, 8% increase), and Germany (169 483 new cases, 29% increase). \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa is now home to over 13 million adults who are fully vaccinated. This comes after 98 954 adults got the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the second shot of the Pfizer jab in the past 24 hours. According to the Department of Health\u2019s data, this pushes the total to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207904,"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-207903","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\/11\/over-13-million-adult-south-africans-now-fully-vaccinated.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207903","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=207903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}