But take the threat seriously and prepare for a community outbreak, says professor Cheryl Cohen
on Friday that there is no need for South Africans to be concerned yet about the country’s first case of Covid-19.
But Cohen said that concern about the global spread of Covid-19 relates to the fact that, despite strategies of containment by a number of countries, the virus has continued to spread. “So we should be concerned and we should be monitoring the situation. We need to review the evidence out there but we need to make sure that our responses are proportionate to the current status, and that’s what we really are doing.”
“This number is actually really hard to get because you are much more likely to diagnose people who die than people who have mild illness. So an illness like this that has a lot of mild cases, if you don’t count the mild cases, you would think it is more severe than it is,” she noted. But, Cohen added, “What we do know is that it is definitely much less severe than other coronaviruses”.
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