All provinces are technically in the fourth wave of infections, except for Northern Cape, which will hit the technical definition soon.
Numbers have already exceeded the peaks of all other waves, and the positivity rate is at a high of 31%.
As thousands of South Africans stop work and head home or on holiday to other provinces, he said it is crucial precautions are taken and vaccines administered. In SA, “Omicron is dominating all sequences and has rapidly displaced Delta, as it is doing in many countries.”
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