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Dr Sarah Dlamini’s energy for her job and passion for people is both undeniable and infectious when she talks about the work she does in paediatric care in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.
In addition to being a busy paediatric doctor, Dlamini is chair of her children’s school governing body, a trustee of her high school’s centenary trust and an elder in her church.
Dlamini grew up in a family of political activists and says she always knew she would work in public service.
“The orientation of my life is the service of others,” she says.
The epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim could be considered South Africa’s Anthony Fauci. As co-chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19, he is the government’s top adviser on the pandemic and has become the country’s face of Covid-19 science. He also sits on the Africa Task Force for Novel Coronavirus, overseeing the continent’s response to the global crisis. Karim, who directs the Durban-based Centre for the Aids.
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The East African
Saturday December 19 2020
Shoppers stand in a queue while they wait to enter the Jabulani Mall in Soweto, on March 31, 2020. As of December 18, 2020 , South Africa had recorded 892,813 known cases of Covid-19 with 24,000 known deaths. PHOTO | AFP
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A mutated virus instinctively sounds scary, but mutation is common in viruses.
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A new variant (lineage) of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes the coronavirus disease, has been detected in South Africa, scientists have announced.
South Africa’s Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize said the new variant of the virus, known as 501.V2, was fuelling the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 infections in the southern country. Sars-CoV-2, like all viruses, mutates with time.