- After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth wave of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic driven primarily by the Omicron variant, is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million.
- Across the continent, though, deaths rose by 64 per cent in the seven days ending on January 9 compared with the week before mainly due to infections among people at high-risk.
- Nonetheless, deaths in the fourth wave on the African continent are lower than in the previous waves.
Africa’s 4th Covid-19 wave, driven by Omicron variant, flattening: WHO
