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[LISTEN] Professor Shabir Madhi: Level One Lockdown Doesn’t Mean South Africa Out of COVID-19 Woods

Faizel Patel – 28/09/2020

(Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)

Virologist Professor Shabir Madhi says the rate of COVID-19 infections was much higher than what was predicted in South Africa and the African continent.

Professor Madhi was speaking to Radio Islam this morning about South Africa’s move to level 1 of the lockdown and also the complacency of thinking South Africa is out of the woods when it comes to the Coronavirus.

For months health experts and politicians have been warning that living conditions in crowded urban communities in South Africa and beyond are likely to contribute to a rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Professor Madhi says while the infection rate of the Coronavirus was higher, the death rate was much lower.

“The whole issue is that this high infection rate for some reason hasn’t actually translated into a massive number of cases of hospitalization and deaths.”

Professor Madhi says it’s very difficult to compare South Africa to the rest of the continent.

“The man reason for that is there have been very limited testing done on the rest of the continent. South Africa tests roughly about under 70 per 1,000 of the population. In many other countries, Nigeria as an example, the testing rate is 2 per 1,000 of the population. Unfortunately for much of the rest of the continent they also do not have good registration data which allows us to track what the access in deaths has been over and above what is expected this time of the year what South Africa does have.”

Professor Madhi says because of the waning of COVID-19 infections in SA, people are going to become more complacent.

“What is likely going to happen in South Africa is we probably going to have people become more complacent in terms of the use of face masks, physical distancing, avoiding mass gatherings. That’s is going to allow further transmission of the virus and probably that will likely occur in the December period.”

Professor Madhi also confirmed that the vaccine trials that was developed by the University of Oxford restarted last week Tuesday.

 

Listen to the interview with Professor Shabir Madhi

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