Dept monitors Covid-19 spike

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Johannesburg - Following the recent increase in Covid-19 infections, the Health Department has said it needs to observe the issue before determining if this is the fifth wave of the virus.

Health experts recently warned that a fifth Covid-19 wave could emerge next month.

Health Department deputy director-general Nicholas Crisp said there could be a number of reasons for this.

“It may be associated with one of the sub-variants of the Omicron. That is what is dominant at the moment, but it also might be just because we are a bit lax at the moment, for instance we don’t wear masks so diligently,” he said.

Crisp added that they would be watching the data closely, before pronouncing on whether this is indeed the start of the fifth wave of the Corona virus infections.

“We are not sure if this is the variant that is going to do whatever is going to happen in the fifth wave, at the moment we have what we call a flare-up,” he said.

Crisp urged people to get vaccinated, and not wait until it gets too late.