SA urged to vaccinate as Covid-19 wave could hit SA within a month

Virologist Barry Schoub says the biggest challenge around Covid-19 is SA’s low vaccine uptake

A covid-19 vaccination site is shown at Alexandra Community Health Centre in Johannesburg. File photo: THULANI MBELE

“Unfortunately, we will always have the coronavirus. The virus mutates. Certainly we will have another wave, probably at the end of [September]. We hope it will be much milder. People who are not vaccinated should get the jab. Covid-19 is not over,” Schoub told eNCA. Shabir Madhi, professor of vaccinology at Wits University, recently tweeted that although extensive immunity evolved against severe Covid-19 infection in SA, it came at a cost of 300,000 deaths with a mortality rate of 500 per 100,000 .

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