The omicron variant has exponentially spread in South Africa in a short time, and now experts are warning that widespread vaccine hesitancy and the lack of basic medical supplies in the region may lead to an explosive outbreak of new cases.
Omicron now accounts for the vast majority of new cases in South Africa and has reached at least 10 other African countries and the French territory of Reunion. South Africa's Gauteng Province -- home of the major city of Johannesburg -- has become the epicenter, where cases are roughly seven times higher than the nation's other provinces, according to government data."I think people have all lost hope when it comes to protection from COVID-19.
"All hands are on the deck. So what we are doing currently, we are trying also to make sure that we take vaccines to the people. We'll go in and have a pop-up site in an area so that people can come and vaccinate," said Shabangu.Dr. Richard Mihigo is the coordinator of Immunization & Vaccines Development in the WHO Regional Office for Africa."We are actually experiencing a lot of vaccine hesitancy. I think it's not that people don't want to be vaccinated.
In Kenya, where less than 6% of the country is fully inoculated, five million shots have arrived within the past two weeks.
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