South Africa recorded a spike in positive Covid cases on Monday (25 April), fuelling further concerns of a resurgence in the coming weeks.
A total of 10,144 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, with 1,954 new cases representing a 19.3% positivity rate. A further 30 deaths were recorded, with two of these occurring in the past 24–48 hours.
“We need to be careful about interpreting the data – especially with the positivity rate. In South Africa, we have become much more selective about who is being tested,” he told news channel eNCA. Madhi added that this particular resurgence is ‘nothing to worry’ about as it appears to be driven by the BA.4 variant, which is the sublineage of the Omicron variant. He added that a high percentage of South Africans would have some level of immunity due to infection of vaccination.
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