South Africa at ‘most devastating’ point as new coronavirus variant spreads

The coronavirus situation in South Africa has reached its worst point so far, President Cyril Ramaphosa said after the country recorded more than 190,000 new infections and 4,600 deaths since New Year’s Day.“The number of new infections, hospital admissions and deaths is higher now than it has ever been since the first case was recorded in our country in March 2020,” Ramaphosa said in a televised address on Monday night in which he said the outbreak was “now at its most devastating”.The…

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