Second Covid-19 wave is easing, says adviser Salim Abdool Karim
The government faces increasing pressure from the alcohol industry, wine producers and the Western Cape to ease the restrictions
29 January 2021 - 05:10
SA is over the worst of its second coronavirus surge and could see transmission slow sufficiently within the next fortnight to consider lifting restrictions, according to Salim Abdool Karim, the top Covid-19 adviser to health minister Zweli Mkhize.
"We are now in a situation where we are on the better side of the second wave but there is still water pouring in," said Karim, who co-chairs the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19. "The picture suggests within the next two weeks we will get to the threshold for low transmission."..
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