Healthcare workers test people for Covid-19 in Alexandra. Picture: THULANI MBELE
Omicron was detected in Botswana and SA last week and has since been identified in at least 10 other countries. It has dozens of mutations, many of which are present in other variants of concern and are associated with increased transmissibility, said University of KwaZulu-Natal epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim, former co-chair of the health minister’s Covid advisory committee.
"Admissions always lag a week or two [behind new cases], but we can already see a very sharp rise in both the public and private sector," said NICD scientist Waasila Jassat. All five districts in Gauteng show rising hospital admissions, with the biggest jump in Tshwane. A little more than a third of SA’s adults are fully vaccinated, with either two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson jab.
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