South Africa hits target of 30 million administered COVID vaccines
South Africa has finally hit the target of 30 million vaccines administered in the country.
The government had hoped to reach that milestone by the end of last year but not enough people queued up to get the jab.
As of Wednesday night, 30,031,000 shots were administered.
As of today more than 30 million vaccine doses have been administered. Thank you SA #VaccinateToSaveSouthAfrica #VaccineRollOutSA #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/UsI29bE6BC
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) February 2, 2022
The latest data shows that 175 more COVID-related deaths have been confirmed through the ongoing audit by the Health Department.
Fifteen of these fatalities occurred over the past 48 hours, meaning that the vast majority of these people died sometime before Monday evening.
This brings the known death toll to 95,463.
The country also recorded another 4,502 infections – it works out to a positivity rate of 11.3%.
As of today the cumulative number of #COVID19 cases identified in SA is 3 612 809 with 4 502 new cases reported. Today 175 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 95 463 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 3 461 490 with a recovery rate of 95.8% pic.twitter.com/yCot48Z5Ye
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) February 2, 2022
-EWN
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