Africa-Press – Ghana. The new variant has come with a spike in cases, but it remains to be seen how much it will affect South African hospitals. New COVID infections have jumped from about 200 a day last month to more than 11,500 on Thursday.
Kirst Dalton had her gym slot already booked. But then she discovered her COVID test from the previous day had returned a positive result.
“I could drastically feel that I was not okay. And my other half was having a raging fever of nearly 39 degrees,” the 32-year-old woman told DW.
“It’s been a rough six days but I’m hoping we’re coming out of it. We fortunately haven’t lost our taste or smell, which is one of the key things of the omicron variant, if that is the variant we have.”
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