President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for calm amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases increasing by the Omicron variant. South Africa reported 11 125 new cases on Sunday, December 5.
According to Ramaphosa, he has already spoken to the Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla who said indicated that the virus is more transmissible.
“However, hospital admissions are not increasing at an alarming rate. It is for that reason I said we should not panic,” Ramaphosa said.
As of today the cumulative number of #COVID19 cases identified in SA is 3 031 694 with 11 125 new cases reported. Today 1 deaths have been reported bringing the total to 89 966 deaths. The cumulative number of recoveries now stand at 2 858 144 with a recovery rate of 94,3% pic.twitter.com/DaLEpE5C6c
— Department of Health (@HealthZA) December 5, 2021
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Ramaphosa who was speaking on Saturday following bilateral talks with his Ghanaian counterpart President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said that the Omicron variant does not seem to be resulting in a great number of hospital admissions.
“It’s a virus and it mutates, all we need to rely on is the tools that we have in place,” Ramaphosa explained.
In the meantime, the two Presidents agreed that vaccination levels have to be increased after more developing economies have become so greedy as to have hoarded vaccines and not made them available.
“We have had to scrounge around to find vaccines all over and therefore we say vaccination is the biggest defence we have got,” the president said.
Weighing in on vaccine access, President Akufo-Addo added that everyone needs to be vaccinated adding that it must be understood that the virus is still around.
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