South Africa has recorded the most COVID infections and deaths in Africa to date. (File)
Johannesburg:
South Africa may enter a fifth wave of COVID-19 infection earlier than expected, following a continued rise in infections over the past 14 days, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said Friday.
“What remains stable… are hospital admissions, including ICUs, not a very dramatic change,” Phaahla told a news conference. “There was also an increase in deaths, not very dramatic from a low base.”
He said health authorities had not been warned about any new variant at this stage, other than changes in the dominant circulating, Omicron.
South Africa has recorded the most COVID infections and deaths in Africa to date, with more than 3.7 million confirmed cases and more than 100,000 deaths during the pandemic.
On Thursday, the WHO’s Africa office marked the rise in COVID infections in South Africa as the main driver of an increase in infections across the African continent.
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