new variants of Covid, other than changes to the dominant one circulating, Omicron. South Africa has recorded the most Covid-19 infections and deaths in Africa to date, with more than 3.7 million confirmed cases and over 100,000 deaths during the pandemic.
On Thursday, the WHO's Africa office flagged the rise in South Africa's coronavirus infections as the main driver of an uptick in infections on the African continent.This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.