Allow me to make two bold predictions: this is the year we come out of Covid – and by the summer, the pandemic will be over. South Africa is weeks ahead of us in dealing with the latest variant, Omicron, and demonstrates clearly that this version of Covid is much less deadly. And yet the number of deaths that resulted was nearly ten times lower than at the previous peak – 428, compared to 4,027 in January last year. The number of new infections there is now dropping precipitously, down 25 per cent in the past seven days. Professor Karol Sikora is a consultant oncologist and professor of medicine at the University of Buckingham Medical School.

Source: The Nation January 04, 2022 11:04 UTC