Daily cases in South Africa are over 6,000 per day, up from a few hundred just a few weeks ago. A new omicron subvariant, BA.4, is likely responsible.
South Africa is seeing a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases driven by yet another version of the coronavirus, health experts say.
South Africa is recording just over 6,000 Covid-19 cases a day, up from a few hundred just a few weeks ago. The proportion of positive tests jumped from 4 percent in mid-April to 19 percent Thursday, according to official figures. Wastewater surveillance has also shown increases in coronavirus spread.
There is one concerning trend, said Helen Rees, executive director of the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg: Children are the first to be winding up in hospitals, just like during the original omicron surge. BA.4 has shown up in other countries, but it’s not clear whether it"it’s going to become a globally dominant variant," he said.
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