Today, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) will meet, with sources saying a return to an adjusted alert level 2 may be on the cards.
According to Adam Lowe, a member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa COVID-19 working group, we are likely to experience one of three scenarios.
There is once again talk of moving to a stricter lockdown level, as an uptick in positive cases combined with fears over two variants of concern identified in the country has experts on high alert.
Our daily new infection numbers have dropped considerably since the surge in December and January, but the battle is far from over.
At this point, we’re all suffering from extreme COVID-19 fatigue. For those on the frontline, there really is no escape.
It’s official: the surge in cases is no longer limited to select ‘hotspots’, and four provinces – the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng – are the key drivers of the second wave.
Whilst South Africa’s COVID-19 cases are slowly decreasing, and some freedoms returning, the worries of a ‘second surge’ point to a tricky road ahead.
On Monday, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, played down the risk of an asymptomatic person transmitting COVID-19. This led many to dismiss face masks as necessary.