South Africa is now home to over 13 million adults who are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/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<\/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<\/p>\n
This brings all the dispersed doses to 23 402 284 to date.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In addition, the country has now administered 15 688 101 first doses of which 229 604 were given to children.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/p>\n
The majority of new cases were recorded in Gauteng after 85 were confirmed to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/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<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a further 35 COVID-19 related fatalities have been reported, pushing the death toll to 89 387.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/p>\n
Global view<\/p>\n<\/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<\/p>\n
According to the WHO, over 3.1 million new infections were reported during this period.<\/p>\n<\/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<\/p>\n
Similarly, the European region logged a 10% increase in new deaths, while other regions saw declining trends.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Globally, over 48 000 new deaths were reported, a 4% drop from the previous week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As of 7 November, over 249 million confirmed cases and over five million deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n<\/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).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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