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Health expert Professor Tulio de Oliveira says the Delta variant is much more transmissible than other variants and can reinfect people who have been sick from the previous variants.
Professor de Oliveria along with the Acting Health Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, and a panel of experts gave an update on the country’s response to the pandemic on Saturday.
“It is really, really highly transmissible, more than all other variants including the one in South Africa,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kubayi-Ngubane announced that the Delta variant first identified in India is what is contributing to the high number of new Covid-19 infections in South Africa.
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