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A healthcare worker takes a PCR test in Johannesburg. PHOTO: Reuters
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Against the backdrop of timid and canceled celebrations to welcome 2022 due to the proliferation of the omicron option, encouraging news is coming from South Africa. The country, where the highly mutated new variant was isolated for the first time, announced that the wave was passing there, and the peak passed without a large increase in deaths, Reuters reported.
South Africa has abruptly canceled curfew to make New Year’s Eve possible. The country sends a strong positive signal to the world at the very end of 2021 and becomes the first country to announce the end of the last pandemic wave.
This news comes amid a statement by WHO Secretary-General Tedros Gebreyesus that the world could overcome the pandemic in 2022 if it continues with joint efforts.
At the same time, many airlines have canceled flights due to large numbers of sick employees.
Another good news came from a British study of 1 million cases of COVID. According to the study, the probability of hospitalization in the omicron variant is about one third lower than in the delta variant.
These results “are in line with the encouraging signs we have already seen,” said Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK’s Health Security Agency, quoted by Reuters.
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