The World Health Organization (WHO) is going to send a task force to South Africa to help cope with the outbreak of a new version of the coronavirus Omicron,
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The team will be sent to Gauteng to help monitor and track contacts, amid experts warn that the new option could cause an increase in re-infections with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 across the country.
WHO Regional Director for Africa’s Emergencies, Salam Guye, also said he was providing technical assistance to increase medical oxygen production and distribution in Botswana, another country on the continent where Omicron was discovered.
It is believed that this option causes more re-infections in South Africa than the “Beta” and “Delta”, warned South African professor Ann von Gottberg.
Re-infection is classified as a disease in a person who tested positive for COVID-19 at least 90 days after previous infection.
Barry Schub, head of South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine committee, told Sky News that the initial signs were “good news”.
The first person infected with strain B.1.1.529 was recently detected in Botswana. According to the local radio station SABC, this is a South African citizen. On November 26, the World Health Organization named the new strain COVID-19 the Greek letter Omicron. The organization described the new option as a matter of concern.
The new strain has already been identified in several European countries, the United States, Israel, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada and Australia. Many countries have begun restricting or banning travel from southern Africa to curb the spread of this option.
Source: Ukrgate
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