Gauteng has exited the COVID-19 fourth wave. Health Minister Joe Phaahla and a panel of experts gave an update on the pandemic on Friday.
Phaahla said that there’d been a 27% drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases being recorded nationally, compared with the previous week.
“Gauteng province has officially exited the fourth wave in terms of the technical definition of a wave. All other provinces have reached their peaks and are now on a decline,” Minister Phaahla said.
The minister, however, stressed that COVID-19 still posed a risk.
“… especially for people with advanced age and also people with co-morbidities as you will see later on for the unvaccinated,” the minister explained.
In the first week of 2022, South Africa saw a 13.9% reduction in the number of new cases with 46,680 cases reported compared to the 54,191 cases seen a week prior, the health minister said.
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