{"id":33448,"date":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=71afb89af147dc91cd9ad6b6fd6e9627"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","slug":"law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials urged to get COVID-19 jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
With government rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has encouraged law enforcement officials to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n
Addressing traffic officers on Wednesday in Pretoria before receiving his Johnson &amp; Johnson jab, the Minister emphasised the importance of vaccinating against COVID-19, as it will assist the country in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important to vaccinate and its part of the things we have to do in the fight against COVID-19. We rely on scientists to advise us\u2026vaccination is important because it reduces fatalities. The vaccine is not a cure but it will assist our bodies to fight the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n
The vaccination of law enforcement officers forms part of government\u2019s efforts in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme to vaccinate the general population and frontline workers in the security cluster.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vaccination numbers are encouraging and I will also form part of this traffic law enforcement cohort. It is pleasing and some sort of relief to know that law enforcement is protected,\u201d Mbalula said.<\/p>\n
South Africa has so far administered 6 854 667 vaccine doses of which 225 808 were distributed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The latest data show that 60 001 people received the Johnson &amp; Johnson (J&amp;J) jab in the last 24 hours, while 165 807 received the Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n
According to the Department of Health, the total cumulative number of the administered J&amp;J shots now stands at 1 306 261 and 5 548 406 for Pfizer. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe commend Health Workers who from the onset have been at the forefront of this pandemic,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With government rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has encouraged law enforcement officials to get vaccinated.Addressing traffic officers on Wednesday in Pretoria before receiving his Johnson &a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n