Vaccinations still need to speed up

Vaccine update:

• Globally, over 6.13 billion vaccines have been administered across 184 countries at a rate of 29.4 million doses a day.
• Pfizer is expected to submit data to the FDA within the next few days regarding vaccines for 5 to 11-year-olds. 
• A shortage of healthcare workers and logistical flaws are disrupting Indonesia’s vaccination efforts. 
• Africa’s vaccination drive is gaining momentum in almost all countries — but Africa’s 30% vaccination goal by year-end seems unlikely.
• Morocco, SA, Egypt, Nigeria and Zimbabwe have the highest number of vaccine doses on the continent.
• Locally, 16.827 million vaccines have been administered to date; 9,419 vaccines were administered yesterday in SA.
• SA officials will meet British scientists today seeking an explanation for SA’s continued inclusion on the UK’s red travel list.
• The UK has cited the Beta variant in SA as the reason but SA scientists have indicated that Beta has been completely overtaken by the Delta variant.
• Kenya, Egypt and Turkey have been removed from Britain’s red list.

Global cases update:

• Cases have surpassed 232.60 million, while the death toll has surpassed 4.76 million; recoveries are at 209.23 million.
• The US has 43.75 million cases, accounting for 18% of global cases; the US death toll is 706,317. 
• India has 33.67 million cases and 447,225 deaths; Brazil has 21.35 million cases and 594,484 deaths.
• Several states in the US are preparing for rationed medical care.
• Japan is preparing to remove states of emergency countrywide.
• Singapore cases almost doubled to new records; renewed lockdown restrictions kick in today.
• The WHO is once again probing the origins of the virus.

Africa cases update:

• Africa’s Covid-19 cases are at 8.31 million; fatalities are at 209,300.
• Morocco has 929,305 reported cases, Nigeria 204,456, Ghana 126,621, Kenya 248,461.

South Africa cases update:

• SA currently has the 17th highest caseload, at 2.896 million; 967 new cases were reported yesterday.
• Active cases are at 49,798; KwaZulu-Natal leads the way, with 23,149 active cases, followed by the Free State with 7,500.
• Covid-19 deaths rose by 51 yesterday, to 87,052; 2.76 million people (or 95.3%) have recovered from the virus.
• 17.57 million tests have been conducted since 5 March 2020; 19,160 tests were conducted yesterday.
• The SA positivity rate is 5.0%.

Read PDF