{"id":509580,"date":"2021-07-29T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=509580"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:31:18","slug":"most-south-africans-dont-want-a-covid-shot-many-rely-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/509580\/most-south-africans-dont-want-a-covid-shot-many-rely-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Most South Africans don\u2019t want a Covid shot, many rely on prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 54% of South Africans say they are unlikely to get a Covid-19 vaccine and almost half say they believe prayer provides more protection than the shots against contracting the disease, a survey showed.<\/p>\n<p>The Afrobarometer survey of 1,600 South Africans highlights a hurdle for the government\u2019s drive to inoculate two-thirds of its 60 million people in a bid curb infections in the country, which is Africa\u2019s worst hit by the disease, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Hesitancy is highest among those below the age of 35 and among the poor, according to the survey. Just 28% of those surveyed trust the government to ensure vaccines are safe.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in May and June, has a 2.5 percentage point margin of error, Afrobarometer said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has recorded more than 2.4 million coronavirus infections and almost 71,000 deaths. While over 7 million vaccine doses have been administered in the country just 2.69 million people are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/509522\/spike-in-covid-19-cases-in-the-western-cape-as-the-province-reports-vaccine-supply-shortages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spike in Covid-19 cases in the Western Cape as the province reports vaccine supply shortages<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 54% of South Africans say they are unlikely to get a Covid-19 vaccine and almost half say they believe prayer provides more protection than the shots against contracting the disease, a survey showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":501327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-509580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509582,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509580\/revisions\/509582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}