When we first went into hard lockdown in South Africa, the majority supported the idea. Two years down the line, it appears that our government is less keen on listening to those same experts.
A study by the Wits Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit has revealed South Africa’s true infection rate.
When the numbers drop, as they have done in recent weeks, we tend not to pay much attention.
The opening of domestic leisure travel aside, there have been changes with regards to which international countries you can travel to as a fully vaccinated South African.
The COVID-19 variant, 501.V2, first identified in South Africa and carrying a mutation called E484K or the “escape mutation”, has arrived in the US.
As if there weren’t already enough issues when it comes to bringing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to South Africa, the price just went up.
Dr Zweli Mkhize’s latest update, delivered during a briefing on Monday, came with a welcome bit of good news about COVID-19 in South Africa.