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In light of the approaching winter months combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in COVID-19 infections.

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This shows that most of the identified cases have been mild or incidental . A similar pattern was seen with the fourth wave which was short-lived in December 2021/January 2022. The current increase in infection is associated with the BA .4 and BA.5 – sub-lineages of the Omicron variant. It may be early days, but it appears that they have similar clinical manifestations.will continue to be be observed with these subvariants.The evolution of the pandemic reflects changes both in the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in the human hosts.virus is a process of adaptation to increase transmissibility and evade the host immune response .

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