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The Citizen reports that with SA still recovering from the third wave of Covid-19 infections, leading health experts are saying a fourth wave could be here by early December and that it will last about 75 days.
Back in June, Professor Salim Abdool Karim told Bhekisisa that SA would almost certainly experience a fourth wave, and based on the data, it is expected to happen in December. He advised that a country would have to have “a very high level of vaccination to stop the fourth wave”, meaning between 70%-80% of the population should be vaccinated. Data suggests the current third wave will end around 26 August, ahead of the 18-and-34 age group’s vaccination rollout. The severity of the fourth wave will depend “on a balance between the prospects of a new immune-escape variant, versus how many people” are vaccinated by then. Talks of a fourth wave were also confirmed in July by the Department of Health’s Dr Nicholas Crisp, who said SA had “to get to herd immunity as fast as possible […] and protect the most vulnerable people in the community”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cheryl Kahla at The Citizen
- Read too, SA sees Covid-19 fourth wave starting in early December, at Moneyweb
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