Covid cases appear to be peaking in the South African province at the epicentre of the Omicron outbreak, data suggests as a British expert hailed the data as ‘tentative good news’.
Gauteng province has seen a meteoric rise infections since mid-November, when the first cases of the highly-evolved strain started appearing — jumping from 58 to 11,703 as of yesterday.
Professor Christina Pagel, a mathematician at University College London who has been following the outbreak, said infections have been increasing