South Africa's recent COVID decline signals a possible short wave for Omicron
South Africa's recent decline in coronavirus cases is signaling a possible short wave for the new Omicron variant, which has presented a new challenge for hospitals worldwide and has quickly become the most dominant strain in the U.S. in only a matter of weeks.
The noticeable drop was first recorded in South Africa's most populous province, Gauteng, where the country's largest city, Johannesburg, is located and where 16 million people reside. The decrease appears to have continued. The variant has also been detected in 88 other countries, according to the World Health Organization. Most notably, Omicron has swept through the U.K., where virus cases have surged 60 percent in a week.
But experts warn that it is still early to determine whether the peak of the latest wave has been reached worldwide, especially with the upcoming holidays potentially contributing to the virus's spread.
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