Prominent epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, who is advising government's response to Covid-19, said on Monday night that while SA had done well to flatten the curve of new infections, there was still a likely spike in cases coming.
Health workers wearing personal protective gear perform mouth swabs for the testing of Covid-19 in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg on April 8.who is advising government's response to Covid-19, said on Monday night that while SA had done well to flatten the curve of new infections, there was still a likely spike in cases coming.Can SA escape the worst of this epidemic? Is the exponential spread avoidable? The answer is that it is very, very unlikely.
“What we would hope for is that the number of new cases will steadily decline and will disappear and that's the end of the story. I'm sorry to tell that's very unlikely. The more likely [scenario] is ... that we've managed to stem community transmission. For once we end the lockdown ... about 55 million people are vulnerable to this virus. As soon as the opportunity arises for this virus to spread, we are likely to see the exponential curve again,” said Karim.
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