– For the week ending 2nd July, South Africa recorded 5% of recorded COVID cases in the world, with Gauteng reporting 3% of worldwide cases.
– We vaccinated only half the number of people as new positive cases reported in 24 hours on Sat 3rd July (26 455 new cases and 12 289 vaccines).
– Saturday 3rd July was a new record high in case numbers both for South Africa and for Gauteng with a 27.3% positivity rate. Yesterday the test positivity was a record 30.2%.
– According to Worldometer, yesterday South Africa was the country with the 5th highest number of new infections in the world and the 11th highest number of active cases.
Dr Sheri Fanaroff answers some frequently asked questions which we will publish for the next 6 days:
1. IF I’VE HAD COVID, HOW LONG DO I NEED TO WAIT BEFORE I HAVE A VACCINE?
● If you had a mild infection, you should wait 30 days after recovery (i.e. 30 days after the 10 days isolation time).
● If you had a severe infection (requiring Oxygen or hospitalization), you should wait 90 days after recovery to have a vaccine.
● If you had one dose of Pfizer, followed by a Covid infection a few weeks later, the infection serves as a booster dose and there is no rush to have the second vaccine. You could however have it after 90 days.
● ** If you are a contact of someone infected with Covid and should be in quarantine, you shouldn’t go for a vaccine until quarantine is up. (A negative test at this time could be a false negative, and you could still be incubating the virus.) This is dangerous both to other people at the vaccine station and potentially to the person having the vaccine.
Come back tomorrow for more questions and answers.
Sources:
Dr Sheri Fanaroff, Gauteng General Practitioners Collaboration, 05th July 2021
