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SA hits vaccine milestone as 100,000 shots have now been administered 05 March 2021 - 21:38 By TimesLIVE A nurse at the Khayelitsha District Hospital in Cape Town gets her Covid vaccine jab. File picture. Image: Esa Alexander SA's 100,000th Covid-19 vaccine has been administered, 17 days after the first shot was given out on February 17. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday — on the one-year anniversary of the first Covid-19 case being recorded in SA — that 100,180 doses had been administered as part of the country's vaccine rollout. Mkhize said he was...

28 February 2021 - 21:54 By TimesLIVE SA recorded 1,168 new Covid-19 cases and 52 deaths in the past 24 hours. Image: 123RF/Jarun Ontakrai SA recorded 1,168 new Covid-19 cases and 52 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the country to the verge of a grim coronavirus milestone. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Sunday night that there were now 1,513,393 confirmed infections and 49,993 fatalities confirmed countrywide since the outbreak almost exactly a year ago. The new infections came from 22,836 tests, at a positivity rate of 5.11%. Mkhize also reported that 70,527...