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IOL reports that as Covid-19 cases continue to rise steadily in the country and the fifth wave has begun, a health expert at UKZN warns that the new variant is spreading faster than Omicron.
On Sunday, the country recorded a 25% positivity rate in infections, with more than 50% of the 5,486 cases having been recorded in Gauteng. Dr Ozayr Mahomed, a public health medicine specialist at UKZN, said citizens should brace for high number of infections as the fifth wave of Covid-19 had started. “According to Professor Abdul Karrim, the fifth wave will be driven a new variant, Pi, that will spread faster than Omicron and infect more people quicker. We are also faced with the impending influenza season that will superimpose on this wave,” Mahomed said. He added that although vaccinations would not completely prevent disease, they would reduce severe disease and remained the best ammunition. SA has vaccinated only 45% of its entire adult population of 39.7 million people.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jolene Marriah-Maharaj at IOL
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