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Now tracking the new emerging South Africa Omicron Variant

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    Posted: December 06 2021 at 11:40am


Tshwane report 

166 Covid-positive patients admitted to said hospital in the last 2 weeks, 

9 died of Covid & 5 out of 33 admissions aged over 60 died.”

Has anyone.received news on this.report from.South Africa in the last few.hours. I.cannot verify if this is Omicron!?


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https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features


A lot of info at this site. Doesn’t seem that the deaths have been parsed out,delta or omicron.


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The best indicator of disease severity is measured by the in-hospital death rate. There were 10 deaths in the SBAH/TDH cohort in the past two weeks, making up 6.6% of the 166 admissions. Four deaths were in adults aged 26 – 36 and five (5) deaths were in adults over 60. One death was in a child in whom the cause of deaths was unrelated to COVID. There were no COVID related deaths among 34 admissions in the paediatric COVID wards over the last two weeks. This compares favorably to the proportion of deaths at the complex over the past 18 months which was 17%. The trend over the next two weeks will be clarified as the number of deaths is currently low, and sufficient time will have elapsed for the development of greater severity of disease and the number of deaths might be expected to increase. For now, the death rates over the last two weeks.as well as over the past 18 months at the SBAH/TDH complex are lower than the overall in-hospital death rate of 23% for the country over all previous waves, as reported by the NICD.

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OKAY thanks for link and clarification.

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Quote in this report "PCR machine in use at the SBAH laboratory does not screen for the S-gene." .....Thats interesting!.

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