Professor Ian Sanne, a member of the Covid ministerial advisory committee, said they will have to review a seven-day rolling average to determine if there was another peak in the third wave.
“We don’t respond to an increase in a single day, only to a trend in the seven-day rolling average. It falls under the category of increased concerned to watch, so it’s on our watch list,” he said. said the higher daily case numbers released on a Wednesday through Saturday compared to Sunday through Tuesday was mainly due to increased demand for testing during weekdays compared to weekends.
“The recent civil unrest definitely posed a risk for increased transmission in KwaZulu-Natal and affected areas in Gauteng; and we are closely monitoring this at provincial, district, and subdistrict level to identify potential hotspots,” she said. “When it comes to hospitalisations, particularly in our general wards, we have definitely seen a stabilisation as well as a decrease in our Covid inpatient numbers over the past seven days,” he said.
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