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The increasingly prominent couple reports that life must return to normal to help the country deal with the maximum Covid-19 infection rate, which is expected to arrive in August or early September.
They say the lock has a limited ability to prevent Covid-19 from spreading as it can only slow it down for a short time.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim told Bhekisisa in a webinar in late April: “If we don’t want any risk of contracting the virus, we would have to stay indoors for another 18 months, until we have a vaccine. That just isn’t practical, we have to start doing things. Schools, like workplaces, shopping malls, and hospitals, will see outbreaks.
“Although children generally have mild Covid-19 symptoms, many of them live in multi-generation homes, so there would be grandparents or even parents over the age of 60, and they are vulnerable to severe Covid-19 disease. Children would have to learn to distance themselves socially at home: fewer hugs and kisses, constant hand washing, and they would have to wear masks, “he said.
Salim Abdool Karim believes that returning to normal will help manage the outbreak at its peak: “That means we have two or three months to return to our lives, so that our children return to school and ourselves to our jobs.”
He predicts that local air travel may even return soon.
“We are likely to see a reduction in domestic travel sooner, but it will come with restrictions on who can fly and precautions will have to be taken, for which masks will be essential.”
“I cannot see international travel in the immediate future. Our major concern with international travel is that travelers will arrive from other countries where the virus is spreading at a rapid rate, ”he said.
(Edited by Mungo Poore)
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