Don’t panic about rising Covid cases. Hospitalisation & deaths are the real metric: Experts - Economic Times

The Omicron sub-variants drove a surge in South Africa in May though a preprint of a new study shows that over 87% of the population was previously infected. However, with a slower rate of increase in cases, less hospitalisation, fewer deaths, South Africa is…

Late last month, India detected its first cases of Covid caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of the Omicron variant, and the country on Friday reported a nearly three-month high of over 4,000 ne… [+6329 chars]

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