SA's Covid-19 infection plateau is unprecedented: ministerial adviser

Cape Town - The manner in which South Africa's rate of Covid-19 infection has slowed has not been seen anywhere else in the world, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, a special advisor to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, said on Monday.

During this period, infections followed the same, predictable trajectory evidenced in the United Kingdom and other countries now battling severe outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. Karim said this picture defied the predictions on the pandemic for which government had braced, once the first wave of infections in travellers, and the second wave of people infected through contact with them, had ceded to a third wave of that had government had braced for, with a third wave of community infection spreading like wildfire.

Karim said there was a possibility that the picture that was emerging could be attributed to inadequate testing but this was unlikely given the concerted increase in screening and testing for symptoms and infections. By Monday, the total number of tests conducted stood at 83,663. "Once we end the lockdown, and we are going to have to end it at some point, we have 57 million people [and] we have no immunity, we have no vaccine, we have no treatment," he said.

Is it that we’ve really reached plateau...or have we just not tested widely enough? 🤔

I hope this is not the calm before the storm, but rather stay positive and thank the key workers

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