Over 15 000 health workers vaccinated as SA’s Covid-19 death toll hits 49 000
Johannesburg – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says 15 388 healthcare workers have been vaccinated in the country since the 80 000 Johnson & Johnson doses arrived last week.
South Africa kicked off its mass vaccination programme last week after 80 000 J&J vaccine doses touched down.
In phase 1 of the vaccination programme, only healthcare workers in the public and private sector are being vaccinated as they are most at risk to Covid-19 infection.
Mkhize said the 15 388 health workers had been vaccinated as of Sunday, 6 pm.
In terms of Covid-19 infections, he said there were 1429 new infections, as well as 113 new deaths, which took the country’s death toll since March to 49 053 deaths.
This takes South Africa’s Covid-19 infections to over 1.5 million infections since March.
The number of recoveries in the country stands at over 1.4 million recoveries, which means there is a recovery rate of about 93.8% currently.
Mkhize said they had now tested over 8.8 million people in the private and public sector, with over 24 800 tests conducted in the past 24 hours.
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