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The national coronavirus command council met this weekend to decide what to do to slow the spread of the virus.
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JOHANNESBURG – The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) believes on Monday that there is some evidence to suggest that the Eastern Cape may have reached its second peak of COVID-19 infections.
But the number of new infections in the Western Cape, as well as in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, is still accelerating.
The coronavirus national command council met this weekend to decide what to do to curb the spread of the virus.
On Sunday, figures from the Department of Health revealed that the country had passed the one million mark for confirmed infections.
The president is also expected to address the nation amid growing calls for stricter lockdown rules.
NICD professor Adrian Puren said that, in addition to the new rules, enforcing the basic principles remains exceptionally important.
“We have really tried to make sure that wearing masks and social distancing become part of our routines. But I also think it’s a question of how we communicate because I’m afraid the vaccine is still a long way off. “
The Eastern Cape currently has 6,925 coronavirus-related deaths with 166,849 infections. However, infections in the province still do not exceed those in Gauteng, Western Cape or KwaZulu-Natal.
# COVID-19 Statistics in SA as of December 27.
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With the expectation that stricter restrictions may be imposed in South Africa as COVID-19 infections rise, human misbehavior is blamed as a major contributor.
The ministerial advisory committee’s vaccine chair, Professor Barry Schoub, said Sunday that citizens have become too complacent.
“I think the main driver of the second wave is human misbehavior; people are getting tired. With the first wave, it was still new and people were a little nervous about the unknown at that stage. “
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