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No cause for alarm: SA health officials on China’s respiratory virus

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‘We already have the virus here, but we don't expect to see it at high levels now because it's our summer and the population globally has immunity to this virus,’ says Professor Cheryl Cohen, head of the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

7 Jan 2025 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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