More than one million South African teenagers in the 12-17 age group have received a Covid-19 vaccine as schools are set to open next week.
MORE than one million South African teenagers in the 12-17 age group have received a Covid-19 vaccine as schools are set to open next week.
According to Department of Health statistics, by Monday afternoon a total of 1,007,034 vaccines had been administered.
Vaccines for this age group opened in late October.
A total of 545,233 were females and 461 811 were males.
The majority of these vaccines were in the Gauteng area – 213,631 – followed by Limpopo province with 153,541.
The country has recorded a 14% positivity rate, with 2,409 new cases recorded in the past 24 hours.
The death toll since the start of the pandemic is 92,530.
