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The highly-contagious Delta variant is driving the surge in new Covid-19 infections in South Africa, the government and scientists said Saturday as the country mulled tighter restrictions. The hardest-hit country in Africa recorded 18,762 new infections on Saturday — its highest daily figure since January — taking the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,895,905, […]

The highly-contagious Delta variant is driving the surge in new Covid-19 infections in South Africa, the government and scientists said Saturday as the country mulled tighter restrictions.

“We are in the exponential phase of the pandemic with the numbers just growing very, very, extremely fast and will keep growing in the next weeks,” Tulio de Oliveira of the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa told a virtual briefing.

 

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