When briefing the media about the Covid-19 pandemic, Phaahla said that the national Coronavirus command council and cabinet made the decision due to the third wave of infections remaining “stubbornly in our midst”.
The number of new infections has increased by 18.2% over the past seven days, Phaahla said, with the resurgence of the third wave being driven by the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape.
Announcing the continuation of lockdown level 3, Phaahla said: “We remain hopeful that … we can start to see a decisive flattening of the curve in the next two weeks.” He added that he was encouraged by the fact that hospital admissions over the past seven days had declined by 5.4%.
On Thursday, the number of vaccination doses administered passed 10 million and Phaahla said that more than half of the key over-60 age group have received at least one dose.
Phaahla said that: “The total population fully vaccinated now stands at 4.62-million people. This is 12% of the adult population. The total people with at least one jab of Pfizer are 8.8-million, 20% of the adult population.”
Sources: MSN
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