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South Africa has lifted a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew on people’s movement with immediate effect, believing the country has passed the peak of its fourth COVID-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant, a government statement said on Thursday. The country made the changes based on the trajectory of the pandemic, levels of vaccination in […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said travel restrictions are necessary to slow the spread of Omicron while scientists race to understand more about the variant
Britain recorded 53 945 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the highest daily figure since July 17, government figures showed, as the dominant Delta variant spreads and measures come in to curb the Omicron variant of concern. Cases were up 2.8% over the last seven days compared with the week before, although deaths were down 3% over […]
The Omicron variant has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving the increase in new infections. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has said more than 70% of all the virus genomes it has sequenced last month had been of the new variant. South Africa recorded just over 8,500 new Covid-19 infections in […]
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