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Omicron can re-infect people who caught Covid-19 before and people who have been vaccinated. This, and the 10-day healthcare worker ‘isolate and contact trace’ policy puts pressure on other healthcare workers ....
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South Africa is in the vice grip of a second wave of the Covid-19 virus. After a year of social isolation, financial pressure, emotional turmoil and fear Covid-19 is delivering an even more devastating blow. A new strain of Sars CoV-2 has been identified. It spreads more easily and younger, healthy people are succumbing to the disease in hospitals, Discovery Health’s Covid-19 expert Dr Ronald Whelan recently told BizNews.com. This second wave is being driven by the new variant and healthcare experts are expressing concern that the latest wave has a much steeper curve with more deaths and intensive care unit admissions. The Western Cape‘s healthcare system is buckling under the wave and private facilities are sending patients into the public sector. Healthcare workers in the province are falling ill and a third of 7,000 workers have taken Covid-19 related leave this year. The province says it needs to hire more than 1,300 additional nurses. Meanwhile pandemic fatigue has set in ....