South Africa told about the identification of "omicron" in new patients with coronavirus

Ramaphosa's statement was published by the press service of the President of South Africa.

“The omicron variant ... appears to dominate new infections in most provinces,” he said.

The South African president also said that over the past week, the number of daily detected cases of coronavirus in the country has increased fivefold.

Earlier, Ancha Baranova, professor at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University (USA), told in the RT stream "Letuchka" whether it is worth worrying about the omicron coronavirus strain.

On November 25, it became known that scientists have identified a new strain of coronavirus in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong.

Later it was designated by the Greek letter "omicron".