South Africans urged to protect elderly against Covid-19 during festive season
Holidaymakers returning to rural areas across the country over the festive season have been urged to protect the elderlyfrom exposure to Covid-19.
Professor Glenda Gray, who heads up the South African Medical Research Council, says South Africans should exercise caution when visiting family members.
“What worries me about the festive season is that people from the urban areas, where there is ongoing community transmissions, will move back to rural areas and those may cause even more transmissions.
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“In the rural areas you find that there are a lot of elderly. If you are going back to your elderly parents make sure that you protect them from any possible transmission.”
South Africa is experiencing a Covid-19 resurgence with daily news infection numbers topping 4 000 over the past couple of days.
This has prompted President Cyril Ramaphosa to impose restrictions in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape by declaring the metro as a hotspot.
The Cape Winelands and the Garden Route in the Western Cape have also been marked as areas which have seen rapid community transmissions.
