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African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday, said the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant of COVID-19<\/a> appeared to be more infectious than the original BA.1 sub-variant.<\/p>\n

Dr John Nkengasong, head of the Africa CDC said it does not cause more severe disease, citing data from South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is reporting that it is more transmissible than the BA.1 variant, but interestingly and very encouragingly the severity seems to be the same.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

South Africa was one of the first countries to detect the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which had since swept around the globe and become dominant in most places.<\/p>\n

Although South Africa was well over the peak of its Omicron wave, its daily number of new infections has stabilised around 3,000 per day, a higher level than that seen at the tail end of previous waves of COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n

Nkengasong said the trend might be linked to the BA.2 sub-variant, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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