As SA notes a sharp increase in the number of daily COVID cases, the Health Dept said the trend needs to be observed a little longer before determining if this is the onset of the fifth wave.
JOHANNESBURG - While the country has noted a sharp increase in the number of daily COVID-19 infections, the Health Department on Monday said that the trend needed to be observed a little longer before determining if this was the onset of the fifth wave.
For three consecutive days last week, South Africa recorded more than 4,000 new daily infections, sounding the alarm following a period of significantly fewer cases.• Health Dept: No need to panic yet about increasing COVID cases "It may be associated with one of the sub-variants of Omicron, certainly that is what’s dominant at the moment but it also might be just because we are all a bit lax at the moment, we don’t wear our masks so diligently," he said.
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