Original upload date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 00:37:12 GMT
The National Department of Health says there has been an exponential rise in the number of infections caused by a new variant of the COVID-19 virus.
The variant which has been discovered from sample
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s by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is also found in neighboring Botswana as well as Hong Kong.
In a media briefing held by the department on Thursday, scientists said they are expecting a rapid increase of the virus which is driving a spike in infections.
Of the 1,200 positive cases that were recorded by Wednesday this week, 80% of those are in mainly in Tshwane in Gauteng, and experts are still generating data from other provinces.
SABC news speaks to Professor Tulio de Olivier, Director of KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (KRISP)
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