JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa-based Professor Helen Rees said on Thursday that an increasing share of the country’s COVID-19 cases were the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of the Omicron variant, suggesting those might have a growth advantage over others.
Rees added at a World Health Organization news conference that despite rising COVID infections South Africa was so far not seeing a huge increase in mortality or intensive care admissions.
(Reporting by Alexander Winning, Sofia Christensen and Hereward Holland; Editing by Estelle Shirbon)
