Fewer Omicron hospitalisations in SA than at start of Delta wave – study

The study also found that those who were admitted to hospital with Omicron were less likely to become severely ill than those who had been admitted with Delta or Beta.

Medical staff wearing PPE. File picture: PA

Fewer people with Covid-19 were admitted to hospital during the first four weeks of the Omicron outbreak in South Africa than during the start of the Beta and Delta waves.

A preprint study, published on Preprints with The Lancet, this week, also found that those who were admitted to hospital with Omicron were less likely to become severely ill than those who had been admitted with Delta or Beta.