JOHANNESBURG: After a year battling coronavirus, exhausted health workers in South Africa are celebrating a drop in cases but dread another wave of infections — a scenario that could strike just months from now.

“We are relieved now because the numbers are down and patients are no longer that sick,” nurse Constance Mathibela told the Agence France-Presse at Thembisa Hospital, in a township east of Johannesburg.

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