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Is SA moving towards a Covid-19 recovery period?

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“The findings indicate that SA is moving into the convalescent phase of the Covid-19 pandemic — the recovery phase. This is likely to be the same in other countries with low or modest vaccine uptake, but the high force of past infections,' says Wits University's Professor Shabir Madhi

that looked at the seropositivity against Sars-CoV2, a virus that causes Covid-19, before the fourth wave dominated by the Omicron variant.

Madhi says the study was conducted in Gauteng and samples were taken from 7,000 people. They show that among people under 12 years of age, none of whom received a Covid-19 vaccine, 56% showed the presence of antibodies to the virus. it was 80%, including 70% if unvaccinated and 93% if vaccinated. He said the seropositivity rate iThe study also analysed the effect of vaccination, hospitalisation and deaths due to Covid-19.immunity gained from a combination of previous infections and vaccinations.

“As such, SA needs to recalibrate its approach to the pandemic and to start managing it as we would do for other respiratory infections which too, cause a large number of hospitalisations and deaths,” said Madhi.

 

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