(Bloomberg) —
Only 1.7% of identified Covid-19 infections in the second week of the fourth wave of infections were admitted to the hospital compared with 19% in the same week of the third wave, South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said.
Still, new cases in the second week of the fourth wave, driven by the omicron variant, were about 20,000 a day, compared with 4,400 in the same week of the third wave, he said on an online press conference on Friday.
Infections in Gauteng, where South Africa first identified the omicron variant, may have peaked, he said.
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