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Severe lockdowns were no longer the stylish way to contain the contagion, Africa’s top public health functionary refocused out adding that he was encouraged by the way that the country handled rearmost COVID-19 surge driven by the Omicron variant.
We’re veritably encouraged with what we saw in South Africa during this period where they look at the data in terms of inflexibility,”John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), told a news conference.
The period where we’re using severe lockdowns as a tool is over. We should actually be looking at how we use public health and social measures more precisely and in a balanced way as the vaccination increases. From the late November, the country saw a sharp rise in COVID cases, around the time it advised the world to Omicron, The graph for the infection peaked inmid-December at an each- time record. But new cases have since fallen back, and the government didn’t resort to strict restrictions like during former infection swells.
“The number of infections increased veritably acutely, but also dropped veritably, veritably sprucely. I suppose that’s a assignment that we all should learn from what the South Africans have done to manage this,”Nkengasong added.
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