West Africa visit
The President said government is giving renewed attention to promoting trade and investment with countries on the African continent.
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Prof Abdool Karim: We may see people getting reinfected because this variant will bypass some of that immunity.
- Prof Abdool Karim: There's some evidence preliminary as it is that we can see that the mutations that occur and may confer some level of immune escape from it. So we can expect that we may see more reinfection.
- Prof Abdool Karim: Information suggests similar presenting illnesses mainly younger people for obvious reasons, that younger people are less vaccinated. So you will see more cases there.
- Prof Abdool Karim: So, when we look at this particular variant, we can don't know much about it. So, we don't really know how it behaves. We don't know how it is and how transmissible and so on.
- Prof Abdool Karim: Let me just make this very clear. We were not caught with our pants down. We expected and prepared for a new variant as far back as September. We didn't know when it will come. But we had ideas.
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