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have a little listen to this for us. immediate briefing on about an hour ago with south africa, top medical research council, through the surveillance done by the network for generic surveillance in south africa. and you can see, indicated in red on this talk, how the army kron variance is now dominating infections. and is responsible now for more than 90 percent of infections in south africa. displacing this green variance, which was the delta variant that drive the previous wife and the, the recent infections up to the advent of on the cron here in south africa. so when we hear that and where we hear what you just said as well, chris does it almost, i'll use this term loosely justify what governments are doing because a lot of people look at bars, johnson and such a job at the other day talking about you know, almost becoming the dominant variance and, and, and, you know, a tidal wave, i think bar just bars, johnson said and, and it creates a bit of panic. certainly, that sort of talked us, but maybe it's better to her on the side of caution governments in many countries. and the many colors have been cri

preliminary data out of south africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is the south african medical research council just reported this variant may cause less severe cases of covid-19. i'm vaccinated people they're going to the hospital in south africa, but they're not suffering as severe disease. they're not requiring oxygen omicron has 50 mutations 32 of those are in the spike protein making it more. visible than any other variant dr. warner green is a senior investigator and virologist for the stone institutes, he believes all those mutations could be it's downfall now. it's possible with this virus that it may be a 10 what we call a tenuated. it has enough mutations. that it doesn't cause as much disease, that would be wonderful, but let me stress that we don't know that yet scientists across the world. areareare one of those teams is use yourselves quantitative biosciences institute there was an event in norway where there was thinkers over a hundred individuals at this event and i think the vast majority is not all of them are vaccinated 60 these people got infected with omicron. so vaccinated

preliminary data out of south africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is the south african medical research council just reported this variant may cause less severe cases of covid-19. i'm vaccinated people they're going to the hospital in south africa, but they're not suffering as severe disease. they're not requiring oxygen omicron has 50 mutations 32 of those are protein making it more transmissible than any other variant dr. warner green is a senior investigator and virologist for the gladstone institute. he believes all those mutations could be it's downfall now. it's possible with this virus that it may be a 10 what we call a tenuated. it has enough mutations. that it doesn't cause as much disease, that would be wonderful, but let me stress that we don't know that yet scientists across the world are collaborating. to stand if omicron had to evade antibodies one of those teams is at ucserves quantitative biosciences institute. there was an event in norway where there's think there's over a hundred individuals at this event and i think the vast majority of not all of them are vaccinated 60 these

south africa and the southern african nations. we just have a report from the south african medical research council giving us a snapshot of patients in a hospital there where omicron was first detected the and here's what we're learning 170% were not dependant on oxygen. 66% were considered incidental covid admissions so it means they had another medical or surgical reason for actually going to the hospital in the first place. the majority of the adults one vaccinated, and of a recent two-week period at least 80% of patients were under the age of 50. now, to be clear, these are all covid patients, but we don't know if they had the omicron variant specifically, but the south african medical research council says a reasonable assumption is being made that the infections were from this new variant, so what do you see in this new data? >> well, ana, i just a couple minutes ago spoke to a colleague of mine in south africa and said a couple of things worth saying. number one, omicron clearly appears to be more transmissible than delta, highly transmissible. a lot of people are getting infected. prior infection does not protect you from

south african medical research council has released its first omicron study. the data was gathered in the first three weeks of the variant appearing in southern africa and it foundt two doses of the pfizer vaccine would provide 33% protection against infection from omicron. 70% protection against hospitalization. while omicron is perhaps more easily transmissible, it isn't necessarily more severe. the president of the democratic republic of congo hopes that vaccination push will help control rising infection numbers there. the country has confirmed the first cases of omicron so far. the government has administered fewer than 5% of the vaccine doses it has been given. the drc has reported 60,000 infections and more than 1000 coronavirus related deaths since the pandemic began. we have more from nairobi on why the government is struggling to contain infections. reporter: firstly, it has affected most of africa, the lack of doses. rich countries bought up almost all of the available doses at first, at the beginning of the year. it was only when donations started to trickle into poorer countries that governments were even able to start those vaccination programs. th

south african medical research council has released its 1st omicron study. the data was gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the variance appearing in southern africa, and it found that 2 doses of the 5 vaccine would provide 33 percent protection against infection from on the con, but 70 percent against hospitalization. the president of the democratic republic of congo, hopes of vaccination push will help control rising infection numbers that countries confirmed. the 1st cases of the con varied so far, the government has administered fewer than 5 percent of the vaccine doses. it's been given the d r. c is reported nearly 60000 infections and more than 1000 corona virus relate to death. since the pandemic began, malcolm, which has moved from nairobi on why the congolese government is struggling to contain the infections. firstly, the, the reason affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses. which countries of course, only all of the available. this is at the beginning of this year. and it was only when donations started to trickle into, into poor countries, that governments were even able to start those vaccination programs, b

south african medical research council has released its 1st micron study. the data was gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the variant appearing in southern africa. and it found that 2 doses of the 5 vaccine would provide 33 percent protection against infection from army kron but 70 percent protection against hospitalization. the finding suggests that while on the chrome may be more transmissible, it isn't necessarily more severe. well, the president of the democratic republic of congo hopes of vaccination push will help control rising infection rates there. the country has confirmed the 1st cases of on the tron. so far the government is administered. fewer than 5 percent of the vaccine dose is it's been given. a d. r. c has reported nearly 60000 infections and more than a 1000 deaths, since i'm demick again. well, malcolm web has more from nairobi on why the company's government is struggling to contain infections. firstly, the, the reason affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses. which countries, of course, almost all of the available at the beginning of this year. and it was only when donations sta

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