COVID-19 in SA | Expert says no need to panic about latest strain

South Africa has recorded its first case of a new, highly transmissible variant of the Coronavirus.However, it does not seem to vary much in severity compared to other variants.Senior Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University's Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis Professor Alex Welte says while Covid-19 is not going anywhere, there is no need to panic about the latest strain.

"It does seem to be currently replacing the other strains without completing them through transmissibility where it's become prevalent in the US and has been doing that for some time," Welte said."They have not seen any really major uptick in the number of deaths, they're currently seeing a small uptick in the number of deaths, this could just be because they're well into the winter.

"This doesn't mean cases have a higher sort of risk of being severe once it has happened. We don't know too much about the severity, there isn't any striking signal that it's anything terribly outrageous or significant so I don't think we need to panic."

When you hear something like this just know that you need to worry

We were not panicking, we don't khe

The powers that be are at it again. First people must not be worried, then people must be cautious, then people must do the right thing and take the shots, and lastly they will start firing people for not taking the jab.

Fok off

there was never a reason to panic but you as the MSM helped government to spread the fear and panic

Anisiyeke

Let me guess, you want me to get the clot shot.. never gonna happen.

Ok

Yeah, sure, a name like 'kraken' isn't something to panic about huh?!

Maybe you should send this to CyrilRamaphosa DlaminiZuma MbalulaFikile and co.

We don't give a rat ass we not panicking thina

When covid first came around, our politL heads were addament... Don't panic don't panic. See where we are now, our economy is worst off

No one is panicking though

...who's panicking?

Who's panicking? Not me...🥱🥱🥱

Lol we didn't panick the first time they lied about COVID and we won't ever panic anytime soon about anything they say... We just chilling.

Don't worry we're not worried this time.

Didn't panic in the early days and can only manage a yawn when seeing headlines like this 🥱🥱🥱

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why would we panic now even the original Covid was not scary

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