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The newly discovered Omicron variant is likely to fuel a surge in South Africa's coronavirus cases that could see daily infections treble this week, a top epidemiologist warned yesterday.
Health monitors reported over 2,800 new infections on Sunday, up from a daily average of 500 in the previous week and 275 the week before.
"We can expect that higher transmissibility is likely and so we are going to get more cases quickly," Dr Salim Abdool Karim said at online Health Ministry press briefing.
"I am expecting we will top over 10,000 cases a day by the end of the week(and) see pressure on hospitals within the next two, three weeks."
South African scientists announced the new highly mutated variant last Thursday, blaming it for a sudden rise in infections in Africa's worst-hit nation.
Hospital admissions more than doubled over the past month in Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province and the epicentre of the new outbreak, according to official figures....
Part of an article found in today's The New Paper
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no impact to the world as most countries ban SA travellers.
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Probably 5th booster shot in plan as new variant can last another year.
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Key is how deadly this Omimicon ….. hopefully jabs will reduce the illness serverity
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(30-11-2021, 12:48 PM)Tangsen Wrote: Key is how deadly this Omimicon ….. hopefully jabs will reduce the illness serverity
but this is not the only variant, there are many more variants underway, some of them are deadly.
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(30-11-2021, 12:58 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: but this is not the only variant, there are many more variants underway, some of them are dradly.
Well, lets take one at a time. No point worrying about the future possible danger, just focus on the clear and present danger
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(30-11-2021, 01:01 PM)Tangsen Wrote: Well, lets take one at a time. No point worrying about the future possible danger, just focus on the clear and present danger
One by one, correct lah, but what have we done to Delta, Delta plus, Mu and Lambda so far
? no vaccines no nothing, now a new one comes, everyone starts panicking.
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They have much sunshine n all sorts of viruses circulating there so high immunity evidently by their low death n infection rates 🤔
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Interesting covid virus...
Can mutate on demand, then media cover until now can have high number of covid cases... Similar to India then...
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(30-11-2021, 12:48 PM)Tangsen Wrote: Key is how deadly this Omimicon ….. hopefully jabs will reduce the illness serverity
In South Africa it is found to be highly contagious....and they could expect 10,000 infections per day.......
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why so many variants come from SA and India?
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(30-11-2021, 01:04 PM)lvlrsSTI Wrote: One by one, correct lah, but what have we done to Delta, Delta plus, Mu and Lambda so far ? no vaccines no nothing, now a new one comes, everyone starts panicking.
Delta plus, Mu and Lambda are a non event …. lets hope Omicron the same
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(30-11-2021, 01:59 PM)debono Wrote: In South Africa it is found to be highly contagious....and they could expect 10,000 infections per day.......
highly contagious yes but no news on how deadly
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