Prof Abdool Karim predicts second surge of Covid-19

Prof Salim Abdool Karim has warned that the fact that there is a decline in the number of daily recorded Covid-19 cases does not mean that the worst was over yet.

The chairperson of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee and one of the foremost epidemiologists in the country made this statement on Monday night in a webinar hosted by the Gauteng General Practitioners Collaboration.

Prof Karim said this after the health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize in the same webinar announced that the country recorded 100 new Covid-19 fatalities in the past 24 hours.

The minister added that the country had started recording a decline in the number of cumulative cases, but he did did not release the latest numbers of confirmed infections.

Prof Karim however made it known that it was possible to conquer the virus.

“It is possible to overcome – these predictions do not have to be true.”