The health department limited its data to this age group to check vaccine efficiency as this was the population group with the highest vaccine coverage at the time.
“From this data it is clear that vaccines are highly effective, and that getting fully vaccinated will help protect you from ending up in hospital or dying,” said the department.
“While the vaccine is not 100% effective, results of the current vaccines in use indicate they are both safe and highly effective and offer excellent protection against severe disease and death.”The Cape Town Metro population of just under 474,000 senior citizens was 40% vaccinated but of the 1,413 infected, 90% were not fully vaccinated.And of the 177 deaths, 97% were not fully vaccinated.
“Of the few cases of deaths of those fully vaccinated, investigations found it was due to Covid-19 itself [a ‘breakthrough’ severe infection], in patients who were very elderly and/or with comorbidities. It was not caused by the vaccine,” said the department.
19 cases needed hospitalisation, of which none were fully vaccinated - this means 100% of admissions were not fully vaccinatedIn the Garden Route with an over-60 population of about 81,200 people:96 cases needed hospitalisation, 95.8% were not fully vaccinatedIn the Overberg with an over-60 population of about 32,150:36 cases needed hospitalisation, of which none were fully vaccinatedIn the West Coast with an over-60 population of about 38,450:57 cases needed hospitalisation, of which 96.
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