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New infections climbed 46% in the past week with cases rising fastest in the Northern Cape and Gauteng, the country’s most-populous province, the National Department of Health said Wednesday in a statement. “We have not yet hit the third wave, however, we are at risk and we hence need to be on heightened vigilance as a country,” it said. These charts show why the health department is on “high alert”. South Africa’s test positivity rate rose to 7.45% on Wednesday, according to health department data. That’s the highest in five days and marks almost a month since the rate has hovered close to or above the 5% threshold that’s considered too high, according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A sustained increase in the positivity rate could force President Cyril Ramaphosa to consider reintroducing lockdown measures to curb the spread of the disease that’ll weigh on the recovery on an economy that contracted the most in a century in 2020. 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