With South Africa having entered the fourth wave of the Covid pandemic – grappling with the recent emergence of the Omicron variant, declaring a burnout of the virus – was still far off, according to medical experts.
This, despite the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reporting soaring numbers of infections, but far less hospitalisation. Epidemiologist and University of Stellenbosch senior lecturer emeritus in the department of global health Dr Jo Barnes, warned that – despite government ramping up the vaccination campaign – the uptake of vaccines by the South Africa population was slow, due to most people being reluctant….
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