Significantly more transmissible, omicron quickly achieved dominance in South Africa.
It has opened five international airports, but some land border posts remain closed.
South Africa is recording just over 6,000 COVID-19 cases a day, up from a few hundred just a few weeks ago.
For all global data sources on the pandemic, daily data does not necessarily refer to deaths on that day — but to the deaths reported on that day.
This chart shows the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people within a given population.
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