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.
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’s inoculation rollout programme.
This comes after 196 696 jabs were distributed on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the country has 10 370 743 people who have been fully vaccinated, translating to 26.06% of the country’s adult population.
Of these, 145 444 people were fully jabbed in the past 24 hours.
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.
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%).
Meanwhile, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported 942 new COVID-19 cases.
The Western Cape has recorded the majority of new confirmed COVID-19 cases after 220 people contracted the virus.
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.
This means there is now a total of laboratory-confirmed cases to 2 913 880.
“This increase represents a 2.4% positivity rate,” the institute said, adding that there has been an increase of 70 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours.
In addition, 37 more people succumbed to the disease, pushing the death toll to 88 466 since the outbreak.
SOUTH AFRICA - 35% OF ADULTS ARE NOW VACCINATED IN SA
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