S.Africa information, learn about counsel ‘sure tale’ on Omicron severity
(Reuters) – A brand new South African learn about, at the side of information on hospitalisations and deaths within the nation’s fourth wave of COVID infections, counsel that the danger of serious illness is decrease with Omicron than with earlier variants, a most sensible scientist mentioned on Wednesday.
“In South Africa, that is the epidemiology: Omicron is behaving in some way this is much less serious,” mentioned Professor Cheryl Cohen of the Nationwide Institute for Communicable Illnesses (NICD), one of the vital authors of the brand new learn about.
“Compellingly, in combination our information actually counsel a good tale of a discounted severity of Omicron in comparison to different variants,” she mentioned throughout a information convention through a bunch of NICD scientists.
(Reporting through Estelle Shirbon and Emma Rumney; Modifying through Toby Chopra)
