Over 30 million people now vaccinated against Covid-19 in SA
South Africa has reached the 30 million mark of people having received at least one vaccination against Covid-19.
The country crossed the milestone on Wednesday, reporting that a total of 30 031 894 people have now had at least one of these jabs.
This was revealed in the latest Covid-19 data released by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal account for more than 17 million of those doses administered.
A total of 2.7 million Pfizer vaccines have been administered since the start of the campaign a year ago - with 12.8 million being first doses.
The Pfizer second dose accounts for over 9.7 million vaccines administered.
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The number of Johnson and Johnson vaccines administered across the country stands at 7.35 million.
In 2021, the government set out a target of inoculating at least 70% of the population to reach herd immunity by December.
However, that target is far from being achieved and on Wednesday, only 69 390 people were vaccinated - far less than government's initial garget of vaccinating 250 000 people a day.
#COVID19 UPDATE: 39,892 tests were conducted in the last 24hrs, with 4,502 new cases, representing an 11.3% positivity rate. Today, @HealthZA reports 175 deaths, of which 15 occurred in the past 24-48 hours. Total fatalities are 95,463 to date. More here: https://t.co/NToqSemXUS pic.twitter.com/zCYCobchbM
— NICD (@nicd_sa) February 2, 2022
