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The health department also confirmed 1,225 new infections over the same 24 hours, which means SA recorded 1,526,873 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Easter super spreader events could trigger third Covid-19 wave in SA
By Shaun Smillie, Norman Cloete
Mar 13, 2021
The Covid-19 third wave is coming.
The concern is that super spreader events allowed over Easter may trigger a tide of new infections.
In a couple of weeks or months, a third Covid-19 wave is set to hit South Africa. But as yet, academics don’t know how deadly or wide spread it will be.
Currently the number of Covid-19 infections is falling, and South Africans are enjoying the last days of summer after lockdown restrictions were eased. But, in a couple of weeks or months, stricter lockdown restrictions are likely to return as the country experiences a new surge of Covid-19 infections.
The executive director of the Wits Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Professor Shabir Madhi, said that an updated analysis of the Novavax vaccine trial in South Africa showed vaccine efficacy of 55.4% against mainly mild COVID-19 among HIV-negative trial participants.
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