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TimesLive reports that leading virologist Barry Schoub says SA is not out of the woods yet and should brace itself for another wave of Covid-19 infections.
He flagged that the biggest challenge was the low vaccine uptake. “It is very low and we need to increase it quite urgently because we’re not totally out of the woods. I don’t think the concept of herd immunity is realistic,” Schoub warned. He went on to say: “Unfortunately, we will always have the coronavirus. The virus mutates. Certainly we will have another wave, probably at the end of [September]. We hope it will be much milder. People who are not vaccinated should get the jab. Covid-19 is not over.” The national state of disaster was lifted on 5 April after its implementation in March 2020. More than 4-million Covid-19 cases have been reported in the country to date. Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at Wits University, recently tweeted that although extensive immunity evolved against severe Covid-19 infection in SA, it came at a cost of 300,000 deaths with a mortality rate of 500 per 100,000 (among the top 10 globally).
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgaugelo Masweneng at BusinessLive
- Lees ook, Sesde virusgolf dalk op pad, by Maroela Media
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