The surge in Covid-19 infections in the Western Cape can be traced to transmission in malls and supermarkets in the last weeks of hard lockdown and was likely caused by so-called 'super-spreading events', Professor Salim Abdool Karim said. Covid19InSA
Cape Town - The surge in Covid-19 infections in the Western Cape can be traced to transmission in malls and supermarkets in the last weeks of South Africa's hard lockdown and was likely caused by so-called "super-spreading events", health Minister Zweli-Mkhize's special advisor on the coronavirus pandemic said.
The province was "simply an early indicator" for the progression of epidemic in other provinces, he said, but with some luck the health services could glean important information here that could be applied to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on other provinces. "We have to look for the flames and douse them before they become raging fires," Karim told a briefing that Mkhize hosted.
The latest regulations that the government has published this week, allows for the National Coronavirus Command Council to return a municipal region to level 4 or 5 lockdown restrictions if all other interventions fail to contain community transmission.
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