Young people bearing brunt of Covid-19 resurgence, ICU doctor warns

“We’re seeing a marked change in the demographic profile of patients with Covid-19,” Rudo Mathivha, head of intensive care at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, told an online media briefing on Saturday.

Epidemiologist and former ministerial advisory committee chair Prof Salim Abdool Karim said it is too early to make definitive statements about young people being more susceptible to Omicron. “What we can expect is that we are likely to see more cases in those who are not vaccinated,” he said. Despite scores of Ballito matric ragers testing positive for Covid-19 after last year's event, organisers said this year's event would go ahead from Tuesday to December 6 and be limited to youngsters with vaccination certificates.

Plett Rage director Ronen Klugman, whose event will run from December 3 to 7, said matrics would have to arrive with a vaccination certificate and proof of a negative PCR test. Guests and staff will be subjected to rapid testing between two or three times during the festival.

Which speed when the experts have indicated that more info is needed on the new variant🙄🙄🙄

Question, who give names to these strains?

Fuck...not again🤔🖕 Omicron VoetsekOmicron On Pandemics, porn & politics.. 1 & the same fuckers ..💩🖕 Credits due

Tsek.

Stop with the lies young people don't have time to test they're busy with grooves and mapiono, stop feeding the public lies.

Eusebius That's right .... keep on adding fuel to the fire....

This could be a step to this country re-colonisation , we definitely can't trust this current leadership.we really can't detect what is a plan here. Half of black South Africans live on ARV'S but we as a country do not manufacture this drugs if USA can say no to ARV'S colony land

Which young people are you on about? Young people ba busy, they drinking beer day and night and Covid hates alcohol, which is why Ramaphosa always ban alcohol coz he wants us dead. Name one alcoholic who died of Covid?

This covid19 thing is proving to be too good to be true. The youth were hesitant to be vaxxed and now the new strain is infecting them at a rate too alarming. Just an observation!

Lies

Young people do not test, where are you getting this news? Cooked obviously.

The stats and the actual number of the tested? 🤷🏾‍♀️

When did these young people get tested Amanga enu...

Another excuse to impose vaccine on young people.

Kak! Evidence?

fusegan ..hamban niyofa

Why was this virus quiet during looting and elections? WAKE UP SA ANC SOLD US OUT

Hahahaha my God..media with the lies...wanting the vaccination of youth to be mandatory

Whoever is tired of this shit count me in phela sesiya nyelwa serious I'm tired of this whole thing whatever the plan is count me in huuuuuu this people and their lies iyooooo I'm gatvol now heses

Ok so because the young people were the ones mostly hesitant to get a vaccine a new 'ominous' strain now exists to scare the young and get vaccine numbers up? Nonsense.

Lies detected. This is a sponsored tweet.

Lamaxhego anomona SizoGroova ngenkani.

Whatever

Stop it

I'm very curious that there seems to be a way to easily test and identify the new variant when it has only just been discovered

So there no infection during election 🗳 campaign 🤣🤣🤣🤣

😅

Nna re sharp, pashasha.magooda

It didn't infect them during rallies though

Very funny 😂😂😂😂

Nonsense nonsense and absolutely nonsense

Vaccinated or not Vaccinated young people I don't think there's a vaccine for this omicron

Mxm... We know this trick and unfortunately its not gonna work Y'all tryna scare the youth and force us to vaccinate

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