Five things you need to know right now about Covid-19 in SA

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Even at the peak of a wave, it’s not too late for everyone to help keep medical facilities out of crisis mode, Western Cape head of health Dr Keith Cloete said on Thursday.

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A social bubble is only as secure as each person in that bubble, and each person who that person is mixing with. Stock image.Looking at national trends, the South African Covid-19 Modelling Consortium says all provinces except Limpopo, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal are in the third wave of the pandemic, and those three are on a trajectory to enter it soon too.The Western Cape was ahead of the curve in the first wave of Covid-19.

“A bubble is only as secure as each person in that bubble, and each person who that person is mixing with.”According to Cloete, these seed further transmissions in other sites. “We are seeing clusters in long-term care facilities and these are often places where the most vulnerable reside,” he said, adding that family clusters, household clusters and school clusters are rising, and all of those spill over into community transmission beyond that setting.

“In the first wave, we saw how flattening that wave took pressure off the healthcare system. In the second wave, we encountered theBeta variant and this led to rapid escalation and again put healthcare under even more pressure,” he said, but “even at the peak”, adapting our behaviour led to some flattening of the curve.

“In this third wave, we have the opportunity to flatten it out,” he said, explaining that it may then last longer but would save healthcare facilities from having to turn people away.

 

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We are now 456 days into a '21 day lockdown to prepare medical services for Covid' ..and we are still ok talking about medical facilities in 'crisis mode'?

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