{"id":33429,"date":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=38d4b312ef071c72df6c6694b35ae116"},"modified":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:00:00","slug":"law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials urged to get COVID-19 jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With government rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has encouraged law enforcement officials to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing traffic officers on Wednesday in Pretoria before receiving his Johnson &amp;amp;amp;amp; Johnson jab, the Minister emphasised the importance of vaccinating against COVID-19, as it will assist the country in the fight against the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to vaccinate and its part of the things we have to do in the fight against COVID-19. We rely on scientists to advise us\u2026vaccination is important because it reduces fatalities. The vaccine is not a cure but it will assist our bodies to fight the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vaccination of law enforcement officers forms part of government\u2019s efforts in the national COVID-19 vaccination programme to vaccinate the general population and frontline workers in the security cluster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaccination numbers are encouraging and I will also form part of this traffic law enforcement cohort. It is pleasing and some sort of relief to know that law enforcement is protected,\u201d Mbalula said.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has so far administered 6 854 667 vaccine doses of which 225 808 were distributed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data show that 60 001 people received the Johnson &amp;amp;amp;amp; Johnson (J&amp;amp;amp;amp;J) jab in the last 24 hours, while 165 807 received the Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Health, the total cumulative number of the administered J&amp;amp;amp;amp;J shots now stands at 1 306 261 and 5 548 406 for Pfizer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend Health Workers who from the onset have been at the forefront of this pandemic,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With government rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has encouraged law enforcement officials to get vaccinated.Addressing traffic officers on Wednesday in Pretoria before receiving his Johnson &amp;amp;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Law enforcement officials urged to get COVID-19 jabs - South Africa Horizon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Law enforcement officials urged to get COVID-19 jabs - South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With government rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has encouraged law enforcement officials to get vaccinated.Addressing traffic officers on Wednesday in Pretoria before receiving his Johnson &amp;amp;a...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-28T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"shadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/fdceae9c738422cfffedeec2ab0f5fdd\"},\"headline\":\"Law enforcement officials urged to get COVID-19 jabs\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-28T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-28T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/law-enforcement-officials-urged-to-get-covid-19-jabs\/\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Medical &amp; 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