Health Dept to brief on new Covid subvariant on Tuesday

South Africans should have a clearer picture of the country's Covid-19 situation by Tuesday afternoon 😷 ECRNewsWatch Covid

As Covid-19 cases continue to rise steadily in the country and the fifth wave has begun, a health expert at UKZN says the new variant is spreading faster than Omicron. Image: African News Agency/ANAThis comes after the first case of the subvariant XBB1.5 was picked up over the weekend.READ:The highly transmissible variant - named Kraken - has been detected in more than 25 other countries.

"The ministry will use this opportunity to respond to a number of public issues, including the discovery of a new variant called XBB1.5 which has dominated the media space and also created public panic in the past few days,” says the Health Department's Foster Mohale.

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