A total of 523,157 people in the province have been confirmed to have contracted Covid-19 and 20,149 have died — a rate of more than 33 a day. In the past seven days, only 12 Covid-19 deaths have been reported.
The latest weekly South African Medical Research Council report on excess deaths during the pandemic — most of which are believed to be due to Covid-19 — put the provincial death toll at 27,740.
By 5pm on Wednesday, 3,718,994 vaccine doses had been administered in the Western Cape, the second-highest provincial total, after Gauteng.
Just more than 47% of adults have been vaccinated in the Western Cape, the highest provincial rate. Free State, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape are not far behind.
The populous provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal are lagging, having vaccinated only 35.2% and 33.5% of adults respectively.
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