was found there soon after the outbreak in South Africa. Picture: Neil McCartney
As South Africa today marks a year since the first case of coronavirus was detected, doctors at the coalface of the pandemic have urged people not to be complacent.
On 5 March, 2020, a coronavirus-free South Africa was plunged into a state of panic when a 38-year-old man from Hilton, near Pietermaritzburg, returning from a holiday in Italy with his wife, tested positive.
Thabiso Hamilton Ndlovu.
While the rest of the world went through the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa had the added burden of what was recently described as “a corruption crisis”.
S.Africans urged not to be complacent after discovery about 2nd variant A genomics team lead by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) found people who ve been infected with this variant have a certain level of protection against reinfection. This undated handout picture courtesy of the British Health Protection Agency shows the coronavirus seen under an electron microscope. Picture: AFP.
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CAPE TOWN - Scientists have stressed that a recent discovery regarding the new coronavirus variant first studied in South Africa should not make people complacent.
A genomics team lead by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) found people who ve been infected with this variant have a certain level of protection against reinfection.
Co-chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, said that during the initial period, the pandemic in South Africa was growing rapidly.