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Lockdown, back to Level 3

It's the end of 2020, and we are back to level 3 lockdown. A coronavirus variant was discovered recently in South Africa and is seemingly driving the second wave of infections in 4 provinces (Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KZN, and Gauteng).  Eastern Cape started to see an increase in early November, and it is in Nelson Mandela Bay metro that this new variant was picked up. Yesterday over 17 000 new infections were recorded, making this the biggest tally since recording. The second wave is well and truly bigger than the first. Technically, however, some medical scientists argue that a second wave becomes possible when the first one has been interrupted. Meaning cases should go back to zero, something that didn't really happen. Although cases did drop for almost three months since August, they didn't get to zero. So, technically we are still in the 1st wave; what we are seeing now is a resurgence. They argue! Vaccines have just been approved and are now administered in affected...