South Africa is seeing an increase in coronavirus reinfections in patients who contract the Omicron variant, Anne von Gottberg, a microbiologist from the country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases, said during a Thursday news briefing.
“Previous infection used to protect against [the] Delta [coronavirus variant] but now with Omicron that doesn’t seem to be the case,” Gottberg told a WHO Africa briefing.
“We monitored these reinfection for the Beta [variant] and the for the Delta wave, and we didn’t see an increase in reinfections over and above what we expect when the…
