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A post circulating on Facebook in December 2020 claims that South Africa has entered a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Facebook marked the post as possibly false , but it’s true. In a speech on the evening of 9 December, South Africa’s min ister of health, Zweli Mkhize , confirmed that the country had officially entered a second wave, according to criteria formulated by scientists and modeling teams. Four provinces in South Africa – the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng – were driving the new wave, he said. The country recorded over 6,000 new Covid-19 cases on 9 December, bringing the total number of cases to 828,598. Just over 50,000 of those were active cases. As South Africa approaches the festive season, Mkhize urged people to continue practicing non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing and the wearing of face masks.
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