South Africa set to surpass COVID’s first wave peak
THE rate of coronavirus infections in South Africa will soon surpass the peak hit in the first wave earlier in the year, the health ministry has warned, as the country battles a new, faster-spreading variant of the respiratory disease. Positive cases increased by 14,046, pushing total infections to 954,258, the ministry said. The positivity rate - or the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are actually positive - was at 26%, around double the average rate of infection the country had seen before December when the virus showed signs of waning. South Africa's health department has identified a new…