Fig. 2

Epidemic curve of rRT-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 by non-variant or variant type at a rural and an urban site, South Africa, 2020-2021^*. *Follow up began on 16 and 27 July 2020 at rural and urban site, respectively, vertical dashed lines indicates analysis cut off between first, second and third SARS-CoV-2 waves at each site, variant imputed for those without variant allocation