Council to deliberate on new coronavirus strain
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the National Coronavirus Command Council would be meeting today to deliberate on measures needed to tackle the new Covid-19 Omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5.
EWN reports that the highly transmissible subvariant was detected in the Western Cape last week.
Ramaphosa said although the subvariant, nicknamed ‘Kraken’, was highly transmissible, South Africans need not panic.
He said the Health Department and scientists would suggest preventative measures specific to the newly-detected variant.
‘We are agile enough to want to have that meeting, and thereafter there will be information that will be shared with the rest of the country. We have learnt from the past pandemic that we have to have greater agility and ability to pre-empt what our reactions will be,’ Ramaphosa assured.
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