- South Africa recorded 1,535 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a jump of 368 per cent on last Thursday
- Some 51,402 people in the country took a Covid test and 22.4 per cent of them tested positive for the virus
- Meanwhile, Covid hospital admissions nearly tripled in a week, but deaths have fallen 64 per cent
- A South African health official said it ‘there is a predominance of Omicron throughout the country’
- Experts are ‘worried’ Omicron reinfections, which are higher than those during Beta and Delta-fuelled waves
- But virus may be no more transmissible than Delta and illness it causes is thought to be ‘less severe’
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