
South Africa Covid-19 cases have nearly quadrupled since Tuesday, with Omicron fueling the surge
CNN
South Africa's Covid-19 cases have nearly quadrupled in the last four days, underscoring concerns around how contagious the new coronavirus Omicron variant might be as the country enters its fourth wave of the pandemic.
On Friday, South Africa reported on 16,055 new Covid-19 cases, up from 4,373 new cases on Tuesday.
Friday's numbers bring the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases past the 3 million mark since the start of the pandemic, according to data released by the country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).

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