SA's third wave of Covid-19 is on course to surpass the peak of the second wave after the arrival of a new variant of the infection, acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said on Saturday.
The highly infectious Delta variant, which has caused infections to rampage through India, has been widely detected in tests, said Prof Tulio D'Oliveira, a member of the ministerial advisory committee. The latest reproduction number of 1.3 — which means every infected person infects another 1.3 — showed SA's epidemic has now entered a phase of exponential growth, he said.
“It is really, really highly transmissible, more than all other variants, including the Beta variant from SA,” he said. However, the Covid-19 vaccines that have been developed had been found to be effective against the variant.
Does she have a medical degree ... So the members of Parliament are doctors now 😠 🤬 😡
Shame, if the government were not stockpiling the vaccines we would have been better off. The vaccines are useless in the fridge. 🎪