The gist seems to be

And I quote

‘it is South Africa’s first experience of a wave with a lot of population immunity. So they saw a big drop in severity. We already saw that drop - with Delta. He was saying for us the impact will be similar to delta (our first wave with lots of pop immunity).’

So perhaps it’s more effect of prior immunity being seen there

Posted By: SCC 28, Dec 15, 18:56:27