Health experts are calling on all provinces to prepare their healthcare facilities for the rapid spread of the Covid19 Delta variant. Health workers in Gauteng are already under heavy pressure as coronavirus patients fill available hospital beds. They warn that South Africa is yet to witness a rapid increase nationwide due to the transmissibility of the Delta variant. Let’s use this opportunity now to understand this Delta variant and how it mutates. What are its origins seeing that many say comes from India?

Guest: Prof Jeffrey Mphahlele - Vice President for Research at the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Guest: Dr Richard Lessells – Infectious Disease Specialist at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform at UKZN