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Marizka Coetzer Uncertainty looms throughout South Africa around the modified alert level 4 lockdown restrictions being extended, as Covid infections continue to batter Gauteng. People queue at a mobile testing center in Dorandia, Pretoria, 5 July 2021. The center was made available for people that feel symptoms or had been in contact with positive people. Picture: Neil McCartney
The province may be at the peak of its third wave, with other provinces yet to hit their maximum numbers.
Yesterday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) recorded 21,427 new cases with 411 deaths.
In Gauteng, 10,538 new cases were recorded, followed by the Western Cape with 2,820 cases.
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New data released on Thursday, suggests the one-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) jab protects against the new, more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.
In fact, the jab may be better at fending off infections from the new strain than it was at protecting against South Africa’s previous variants.
The vaccine performed even better against the Delta variant in these laboratory tests than against the Beta Covid-19 strain that was, until recently, the dominant strain of the virus in South Africa.
One of the studies was released as a pre-print but has not yet been peer-reviewed. The other is awaiting publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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