South Africa faces third COVID wave, returns to stricter lockdown
Al Jazeera
South Africa is officially the worst-hit country on the continent with more than 1.65 million cases and 56,363 deaths.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa is to reimpose stricter measures against COVID-19 fearing the whole country will soon face a third wave of the pandemic. Four of the nation’s nine provinces, including Gauteng which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria and has the biggest population, are already battling a third wave of infections, Ramaphosa said on Sunday. “It may only be a matter of time before the country as a whole will have entered a third wave,” he said.
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