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Covid-19 hospital cases up 70% in past week‚ but actual numbers very low

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Omicron is now in more than 76 countries across the globe

Health-care workers at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Johannesburg. Picture: GALLO IMAGES/SHARON SERETLO

Numbers have already exceeded the peaks of all other waves‚ and the positivity rate is at a high of 31%. On the upside‚ however‚ the ratio of hospitalisations to infections in the second week of the fourth wave has been only 1.7%. In the same week of the third wave it was 19%.Phaahla cautioned: “Mildness with Omicron may not be less virulent but seems so due to high vaccine coverage. In the over-60s almost two-thirds of the population are vaccinated and in the over-50s it’s at around 60%.

Covid-19 hospitalisations remain relatively low while the number of infections is rising quickly in every province. There are early concerns that those under 20 years old are being hit hard in the fourth wave‚ but the higher numbers have now shifted to older age cohorts.

 

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