The significant increase in Covid-19 infections in Gauteng has been largely driven by the Delta variant, theAccounting for 53% of infections in the province, the variant is 97% more transmissible than the original lineage of the SARS-CoV-2. On Wednesday, the department of health’s daily Covid-19 report showed that Gauteng had more than 85 000 active Covid-19 cases. ― first detected in South Africa ― might be reinfected with the Delta variant.
“From the small dataset that we have seen reported nationally, it appears that there is a risk of reinfection with the Delta variant,” says Alan Christoffels, the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, reiterating that “this is an active area of enquiry [and] research so we can only respond to the data at hand”.
Also drawing his response from limited available data, Wolfgang Preiser, the head of medical virology at Stellenbosch University, says being infected with the Beta variant during South Africa’s second wave of the pandemic “will not provide very good immunity against the Delta variant”. Whether this lack of immunity will change the expectation of how the third wave progresses remains uncertain, says Preiser, but “it might contribute to what we are seeing in Gauteng”.
In the UK, the Delta variant continues to drive a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases consistent with previous pandemic waves during 2020-21,
Two Doses: Over 90% effective at preventing hospitalization from serious illness re: Delta Fully vaccinated rarely need to be admitted Report today, UK: 'just 4 per cent of delta hospitalisations in the under-50s were fully vaccinated'
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