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‘New variant driving 2nd wave’

A KZN team which discovered the 501.V2 variant of Covid-19, which experts describe as highly transmissible, say it is the driving force behind the country's second wave and that it is making young and once healthy people, severely ill.

The announcement was made by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, ministerial advisory committee co-chairperson Professor Salim Abdool Karim and Professor Tulio de Oliveira, the

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