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South Africa Sees Covid-19 Fourth Wave Starting in Early December

South Africa expects a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections to start in December.

South Africa Sees Covid-19 Fourth Wave Starting in Early December
A resident receives a Covid-19 vaccine inside a cubicle at a Discovery Ltd. mass vaccination site in the Midrand district of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg)

South Africa expects a fourth wave of coronavirus infections to start on Dec. 2 and to last about 75 days, Salim Abdool Karim, former chairman of the government’s ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, said.

The government is assuming that the wave will follow a similar pattern to that of the third wave and that there will be a new variant by then, he said in a Government Technical Advisory Centre conference.

Data is suggesting the current wave will end about Aug. 26, he said.

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