As news of the omicron variant and fourth wave of Covid-19 infections reached the ears of South Africans, over 680 000 citizens went for their jabs this week.
According to National Department of Health’s dashboard, from Sunday, November 28, until Thursday, December 2, South Africans over 685 133 got their jabs to protect themselves against the virus.
This brings the total number of those vaccinated during this period to 55.72% women and 44.73% were men. The success is attributed to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s rallying call to South Africans to get their jabs, meanwhile alarming the citizens of the dangers of a number of daily Covid-19 infections increasing.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reports Gauteng province to be the epicenter of the latest infections to hit the country, meanwhile Northern Cape province being the lowest with daily infections.
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, said,” that while Omicron appeared to be very transmissible, the right response was to be prepared, cautious and not panic.”
At this point in time, much remains unknown about Omicron, which was first detected in southern Africa last month and has been spotted in at least two dozen countries. Parts of Europe were already grappling with a wave of infections of the Delta variant before it emerged.
Source: IOL
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