JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who examined constructive for COVID-19 on Sunday, is still showing mild symptoms and has needed to delay a booster vaccine he was attributable to obtain this week, his workplace stated on Monday.
A press release from the presidency added that he reiterated a name for everybody to be vaccinated in order to cut back the possibilities of severe sickness, hospitalization and demise.
Ramaphosa, who was given Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine in February, examined constructive the identical day that he addressed a state memorial to the final chief of South Africa’s white minority authorities, FW de Klerk, in Cape Town.
His workplace stated on Sunday that Ramaphosa had examined destructive on Wednesday final week when he returned to South Africa from a visit to 4 West African international locations.
In the previous few days South Africa has reported round 20,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, in a fourth wave believed to be linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant. South African scientists to this point see no signal that the variant causes extra extreme sickness.
(Reporting by Alexander WinningEditing by Gareth Jones and Andrew Cawthorne)
