Coronavirus cases are dropping in the most affected country on the continent. The news is rather well received by the health workers who are paying a heavy price for the Covid-19. Several hundred nurses have contracted the virus.
“Every day when I got home I would pray and ask God, ‘Please, God, can you help me through this ordeal? Hence my current form, but I’m exhausted. I need rest. Now I’m exhausted, but anyway, it’s by the grace of the Lord that I’m here right now “, Explain Salome Mkoana, head of the Covid-19 department at the Promise.
But the fight against the virus is far from won. The country has passed the 50,000 death mark. The nursing staff fear a third wave.
“You know our fear is that we just imagine how much worse the situation is, how bad it is going to be? Will it be the same as the first or the second wave or it will be worse? But the good news, is that we understand it better. Thus, we will be much wiser when we approach the third wave. So we cannot say that we are not ready, we are ready “, highlighted Phuti Kobo, of the coronavirus department of the Thembisa hospital
Hope lies in the vaccine. The country launched its vaccination campaign on February 17 after a postponement linked to concerns about the effectiveness of Astra Zeneca vaccines on the South African variant.
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