Johannesburg – The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, is holding a ‘family meeting’ on Sunday evening, to address the nation on the government’s latest response to the coronavirus pandemic.
This comes after Acting Minister of Health, Mmamoloko Kubayi, announced on Saturday that the Covid-19 variant, called Delta is currently being spread in the country.
“Previously we had communicated that the third wave peak is unlikely to surpass the second wave peak. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case, our scientists, have discovered that we have a new variant that is prevalent in our country. This new variant is called that Delta,” she said.
“The number of infections continues to rise and Gauteng continues to the epicenter of new infections. The trends are clearly showing that other provinces are going to experience the trend we are seeing in Gauteng, notably in the western and the Eastern Cape,” the acting health minister further said.
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