Nunes said that we are still in the early stages in terms of increasing cases. So really I don’t want to call it a wave. He said, “We are seeing a slight increase in the number of hospitalizations, in fact the number of deaths is very less. It is noteworthy that in April, an average of 300 new cases of infection were coming in South Africa, whose number has increased to eight thousand this week.
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Mild symptoms of infected raised concern
Nunes said that the actual number of new infections is probably higher because those infected have mild symptoms and people are getting tested only when they fall ill. Two subvariants of Omicron, ba.4 and ba.5, have been identified in South Africa, which closely resemble the original form, which was first identified in South Africa and Botswana late last year.
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People getting infected with two sub-variants of Omicron
Nunes said that most of the new cases are coming from these two variants of infection. It is still oomicron but slightly different at the level of the genome. He said that the new form can also infect people who have been vaccinated and have acquired immunity against the previous Kovid-19 infection, but it usually causes mild symptoms.
