THE South Africa announced a record number of new daily COVID-19 cases today, Wednesday, amid a fourth wave of the pandemic believed to be largely caused by Omicron mutation of coronavirus.
In particular, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) recorded 26.976 new cases in the last 24 hours, a number that exceeds their peak 26.485 infections in early July, during the third wave caused by the then dominant Delta executive, broadcasts the EIA, citing Reuters.
The NICD also reported 54 new deaths related to Covid-19 and beyond 620 imports in hospitals.
It is recalled that one of the properties of Omicron that most experts agree on is its increased transmissibility. «Omicron is spreading at a rate we have never seen before in any other variant“, Stressed yesterday the general secretary of the WHO, Tantros Antanom Gebregesous.
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