Workers pictured at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. No more cheeringIn the early days of the fight against Covid-19, South Africans cheered healthcare workers in neighborhoods across this city. With low rates of vaccination in South Africa, they did expect another wave, but some scientists thought that the very worst was over. "It was surprising how quickly the Delta variant took over," said Tulio de Oliveira, who until recently led the team at KRISP, a genomics surveillance center in Durban. The same is happening in Gauteng, the epicenter of this wave in South Africa, but just on a much larger scale.

Source: CNN July 09, 2021 06:27 UTC