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Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f... by standardUser on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:21PM (#29654576)
Deaths have literally just shot up in SA in the last few days. The 7 day average has doubled in two weeks.
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Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f... by oneoff786 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#29654727)
It’s gone from 20 to 40. With some rounding and cherry picking of dates.

This time last year it was over 400.

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Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f... by ds206 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:23PM (#29654620)
Link to data?
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Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f... by standardUser on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:27PM (#29654673)
It's in the article in the form of a chart. But if you can't see because of the paywall, you can look up the same data on this page: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mapping-s...
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Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f... by reducesuffering on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#29654728)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-afri...

3 day average is only 48 deaths per day in all of South Africa. We are at the 3 week mark. If Omicron was half as deadly as Delta we'd be seeing a corresponding spike as we saw the initial burst of cases weeks ago. We're not, it's a slight uptick. Another week and we can be quite confident.

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