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How will we cope with the Omicron variant?

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South Africa's Immune Defences Are Inadequate

People are mixing and moving about pretty free ly. So gatherings are still allowed, quite large gatherings. Everything is open in terms of hospitality and recreation. There's not much check on the spread of this virus at the moment. If they wait too long to move they find that hospitalizations are uncomfortably high. Measures that governments put in place can end up being seen as a back lash against a country which is trying to be vigilant.

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