Hospital admissions in South Africa aren’t on the rise, despite a jump in active COVID-19 cases started by the new Omicron coronavirus strain, the country’s chairman, Cyril Ramaphosa, told journalists.
Our sanitarium admissions aren’t adding at an intimidating rate meaning that people (who) may be testing positive aren’t in large figures being admitted to hospitals,”Ramaphosa told journalists, as quoted by South African outlet Eyewitness News The chairman, who’s presently on an sanctioned visit to Ghana, has also blamed the nations that assessed trip restrictions on South Africa and a number of other African countries after the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the country.
According to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, still, people mustn’t worry as the new variant is more transmittable but seems to bring milder illness, as sanitarium admissions appear to show.
The tests still have to be done and the exploration still needs to be done that whilst Omicron spreads, it doesn’t feel to be performing in lesser figures of sanitarium admissions. We should take heart from that,”the chairman added Since the discovery of the new coronavirus variant in South Africa at the end of November, active COVID-19 cases in the country rose from to over. It was marked as a variant of concern due to its high infection rates by the World Health Organization egging countries worldwide to apply new trip restrictions.