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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
8 May 2023
WHO Ends COVID-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern: What Does It Mean?

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
2 May 2023

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
24 April 2023
Update on India's Covid-19 Situation: Rise in Reported Cases and the Spread of XBB.1.16 Variant

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
17 April 2023
Global Trends in Viral Transmission, Long Covid, and Why Covid-19 is Not "Just Like Flu"

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
10 April 2023
While there are over 600 omicron variants circulating worldwide, the latest variant in the evolution of the virus is XBB.1.16

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
3 April 2023
Today’s missive starts with polio

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
13 March 2023
I am writing today’s Epidemic Intelligence missive from Tokyo

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
6 March 2023
How common is past infection with pre-omicron and omicron

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
27 February 2023
Past infection in protecting against re-infection

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
20 February 2023
Covid-19 & other epidemics

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
13 February 2023
Cholera is continuing to spread within Malawi and now has started spreading in South Africa

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
6 February 2023
South Africa remains in low transmission

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
30 January 2023
Covid-19 Update

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
23 January 2023
Best wishes for 2023

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
27 June 2022
South Africa remains in low transmission

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
19 June 2022
This week's missive will be covering 5 issues

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
16 June 2022
Should South Africa remove/ease all public health measures now that the 5th wave is over and we likely have about 3 months of low transmission?

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
6 June 2022
A positive note on Covid-19 in South Africa: The 5th wave in South Africa is over!

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
30 May 2022
Globally, The pandemic’s omicron wave continues to subside globally, despite increasing cases in some parts of the world due to omicron sub-variants.

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Ad-hoc update: Monkeypox
26 May 2022
A short missive about monkeypox, mainly intended for those not familiar with this virus.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID -19 UPDATES
23 May 2022
The 5th wave in South Africa has reached its peak (a relatively low peak) and case numbers are now declining.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
17 May 2022
While the pandemic has continued its global decline, omicron sub-variants are showing possible early signs that they may change this trend, though it is too early to tell for sure.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
8 May 2022
South Africa is in its 5th wave

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
2 May 2022
Too early to tell if South Africa is actually entering the 5th wave

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
24 April 2022
The cases have risen dramatically in South Africa (Slide 2 – red circle) and the 7-day moving average of cases has just passed the threshold that I use for defining the start and end of a wave (ie. 5 cases per 100,000 pop as a daily average).

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
14 April 2022
Globally, the downward trend continues BA.2 transmission is now picking in New York and surrounding areas.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
7 April 2022
South Africa is currently in the trough between waves but there are some early signs that need to be monitored

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
31 March 2022
Today’s missive is somewhat shorter as I thought it would be useful to focus just on what Pi may look like – Pi is the next letter in the Greek alphabet after omicron and is likely to be the name of the next variant of concern.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
24 March 2022
Watching the global trends in SARS-CoV-2 cases is déjà

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
17 March 2022
Regarding Covid-19, we are covering 3 things today

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
10 March 2022
The 4th wave in South Africa has continued its downward trajectory

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
3 March 2022
Reassuringly, the global situation continues on the expected downward trajectory

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
24 February 2022
The cases in South Africa continue to decline to quite low levels of transmission

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
17 February 2022
The global omicron wave is declining fast

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
10 February 2022
Two important developments, one is the outbreak of BA.2 in South African schools and the other is a finding from the Veteran’s Administration study in the USA that is very concerning.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
3 February 2022
The world has past its omicron peak – the peak in this 4th wave was more than 4 times higher than the previous peaks.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
26 January 2022
This week’s missive covers both my trip to Vietnam and the Covid-19 situation in South Africa

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
19 January 2022
Almost there!! Just a few more days before the cases drop below the threshold and the omicron wave is defined as ended.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
12 January 2022
This week’s missive on Covid-19 in South Africa is a bit longer than usual as it has some good and some not-so-good news.

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Prof Salim Abdool Karim Weekly COVID-19 UPDATES
29 December 2021
SARS-CoV-2 omicron trajectory

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