{"id":576570,"date":"2022-04-12T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=576570"},"modified":"2022-04-12T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T07:01:03","slug":"2-new-omicron-sublineages-detected-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/576570\/2-new-omicron-sublineages-detected-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new Omicron sublineages detected in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tulio de Oliveira, who runs gene-sequencing institutions in South Africa, says that scientists in the country have discovered two new sublineages of the omicron coronavirus variant.<\/p>\n<p>The lineages have been named BA.4 and BA.5, he said by text message and in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Still, de Oliveira said, the lineages have not caused a spike in infections in South Africa and have been found in samples from a number of countries, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Omicron BA.4 &amp; BA.5 detected in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and U.K. Early indications that these new sublineages are increasing as a share of genomically confirmed cases in SA. No cause for alarm as no major spike in cases, admissions or deaths in SA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PrcBWpVWtl\">pic.twitter.com\/PrcBWpVWtl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tulio de Oliveira (@Tuliodna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tuliodna\/status\/1513529930046648326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>South Africa meanwhile has administered 34,146,981 vaccine doses with 5,845 administered on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The figure includes 8,333,395 Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccines and 25,813,586 Pfizer vaccines administered to date in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people who were fully vaccinated in the last 24 hours is 1,967, and this includes 867 Johnson &amp; Johnson and 801 Pfizer vaccines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> UPDATE: 11,154 tests were conducted in the last 24hrs, with 553 new cases, which represents a 5.0% positivity rate. Today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HealthZA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HealthZA<\/a> reports 2 deaths; of which 1 occurred in the past 24\u201348 hrs. Total fatalities are 100,098 to date: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hu9rSSr4N1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hu9rSSr4N1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5nKzIA5LLa\">pic.twitter.com\/5nKzIA5LLa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NICD (@nicd_sa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicd_sa\/status\/1513550789859590144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The NICD noted that 11,154 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, with 553 new cases, which represents a 5.0% positivity rate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health reported <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">two deaths; of which one occurred in the past 24\u201348 hrs. Total fatalities are 100,098 to date, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases are from Gauteng Province (50%), followed by Western Cape (18%). KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 17%; Mpumalanga accounted for 5%; Eastern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 3%.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/576318\/sars-will-start-going-after-taxpayers-with-these-assets-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SARS will start going after taxpayers with these assets: experts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulio de Oliveira, who runs gene-sequencing institutions in South Africa, says that scientists in the country have discovered two new sublineages of the omicron coronavirus variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":446656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,15017,15943,15337],"class_list":["post-576570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-national-institute-for-communicable-diseases","tag-pfizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576634,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576570\/revisions\/576634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}