Omicron Variant Drives Rise in Covid-19 Hospitalizations in South Africa Hot Spot

JOHANNESBURG—The emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in South Africa has driven a sharp enhance in Covid-19 hospitalizations in the country’s warm-location province more than the previous two months, even though much less sufferers are being handled for severe disease, the country’s Nationwide Institute for Communicable Illnesses reported.

There has also been an unusually substantial amount of hospitalizations of small children under 2 several years aged close to the capital, Pretoria, where instances begun soaring initial, even though some of these could be precautionary, the institute reported.