Video: R rate in Omicron epicentre in South Africa soars from below one to 3.5 in just weeks as UK Government scientist rubbishes claims that super-strain is milder
Dr Owen Kaluwa from the World Health Organisation in South Africa tells BBC Breakfast there are not ‘very high rates’ of hospitalisation from the new Covid-19 variant Omicron.
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