After a year battling coronavirus, exhausted health workers in South Africa are celebrating a drop in cases but dread another wave of infections a scenario that could strike just months from now.
“We are relieved now because the numbers are down and patients are no longer that sick,” nurse Constance Mathibela told AFP at Tembisa Hospital.
After the epidemic hit its stride, the hospital “was almost full every day,” she recalled.
“There was no time when we had an empty (COVID) ward. It was just a continuous (flow of) things.”
South Africa recorded its first case of coronavirus on 5 March last year.
It has since been through two virus storms, recording over 1.5 million cases and more than 50,000 deaths — the highest in all of Africa.
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Source: eNCA
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