Is the new COVID-19 variant affecting more women and younger people?

The new COVID-19 variant SARs Cov 501.2 has proven to be more transmissible than the virus that hit the country in March 2020. Men and old people were found to be 40% more likely to die during the first wave, but with the new variant, there are more deaths across all genders and age groups - this is an indication of how rapidly transmissible the new variant is.
Prof Tulio de Oliveira, world-renowned virus hunter and bioinformatician from KRISP at UKZN joined Darren, Keri and Sky to discuss the effects of the new variant and to give an update on the vaccine.