Prof Karim explains why SA's Covid-19 community transmissions are low

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Prof Karim explains why SA's Covid-19 community transmissions are low | Day19ofLockdown Covid19inSA

He said the rate of infections in the country had not taken the expected trajectory. He said South Africa was a unique case in that instead of case numbers rising uncontrollably, such as in the UK or Italy, the country had reached a plateau in cases.

Karim said in looking at the stages that a virus spreads, the first phase would be the travellers who brought the virus into the country. The second stage, he said, would be those who come into contact with the travellers and the third stage would be the community transmissions. “We expected to see an exponential growth in our epidemic. For some reasons, those two groups did not lead to a widespread community epidemic. We still see community transmissions but they are at a low level. If it did we would have been on a rapid upward trajectory. The daily number of cases before the lockdown was 65. The number of cases after the lockdown is 72 cases,” Karim said.

 

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Because ANC is useless.

The expert at it again 🙄 an expert would have a cure, that's my opinion✌️

I accept Karm’s medical opinion but i dont hear karm’s taking about weather difference

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