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[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG: A South African pulmonologist said on Thursday that she was still seeing serious Covid-19 disease in people who are unvaccinated or have comorbidities during an infection wave driven by the Omicron variant. “We are still seeing very serious infections and admissions in patients who are unvaccinated and also …

[ad_1] The pace of daily new Covid-19 infections of the coronavirus has nearly doubled in the past week, surpassing two million known cases a day, underscoring just how quickly the Omicron variant has spread around the world. On April 25 last year, the global average hit a high of more …

[ad_1] The WHO said a variant found in France hasn’t become much of a threat since it was first identified in November. The variant “has been on our radar,” Abdi Mahamud, a WHO incident manager on Covid, said on Tuesday. “That virus had a lot of chances to pick up.” …

[ad_1] CAPE TOWN: President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “our moral compass and national conscience” as South Africa bade farewell at a state funeral on Saturday to a hero of the struggle against apartheid. “Our departed father was a crusader in the struggle for freedom, for …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Amid rising cases of Covid-19 and its new variant, Omicron, across the globe, experts have warned that the new and supposedly more contagious variant is likely to replace Delta soon as the dominant global variant, with the virus being fitter and having a reproductive advantage. While Delta …

[ad_1] The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month over concerns about the fast-spreading Covid-19 Omicron variant, a senior administration official told Reuters. Foreign nationals who are barred from the United States because they have been in one of the eight countries within …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned against the rising Omicron cases around the world, saying that the world could be entering the worst part of the pandemic as the variant will result in the “worst surge” the world has seen so far. In a series of tweets, Bill …

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has returned to work following a week of isolation after testing positive for Covid-19, his office announced on Monday. Ramaphosa had mild symptoms and was treated at his official residence in Cape Town by South Africa’s military health service as the country battled …

[ad_1] JOHANNESBURG: As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. That’s one of the reasons why he, along with other doctors and medical experts, suspect that the omicron version …

[ad_1] BRAZZAVILLE: Cases of coronavirus in Africa nearly doubled over a week as Omicron spread, but hospitalisations in South Africa, where the new variant was discovered, remain low, the UN said Thursday. In a weekly online press briefing, the World Health Organization’s Africa branch said the continent had recorded 107,000 …