{"id":95643,"date":"2026-02-11T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:29:58","slug":"kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","title":{"rendered":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial government says a vaccine shortage is hampering efforts to respond to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.<\/p>\n<p>KZN has been declared the epicentre, with over 200 confirmed cases in the province alone.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, members of the Provincial Executive Council held meetings with commercial and communal farmers in parts of the province to discuss the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli says vaccinations will get underway as soon as they receive them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are expecting 1.5 million to arrive in South Africa this week, and a bulk of it will be coming to KwaZulu-Natal. We had a meeting with the National Minister of Agriculture, together with the MEC of Agriculture, Thembeni KaMadlopha-Mthethwa, here in the province, and next week we are expecting 950,000 doses,\u201d Ntuli said.<\/p>\n<p>Ntuli has warned that the outbreak must not be used for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaccination is free; no money must be demanded by whoever will be responsible,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial government says a vaccine shortage is hampering efforts to respond to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. KZN has been declared the epicentre, with over 200 confirmed cases in the province alone. On Tuesday, members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-95643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"828\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"438\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\",\"name\":\"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg\",\"width\":828,\"height\":438,\"caption\":\"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine - South Africa","description":"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine","og_description":"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":828,"height":438,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine","datePublished":"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2"},"wordCount":184,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg","keywords":["South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2","name":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg","datePublished":"2026-02-11T10:12:37+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-11T10:29:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"KZN has been declared the epicentre of the outbreak, with over 200 confirmed cases. The KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/sm_1770793124.615102.jpg","width":828,"height":438,"caption":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-becomes-foot-and-mouth-epicenter-awaiting-vaccine-2#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"KZN Becomes Foot-and-Mouth Epicenter Awaiting Vaccine"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}