in in an official ceremony on wednesday and from that point, he starts work and has already started work because just earlier today, he, together with angela merkel, the outgoing chancellor and the regional government already introduced and decided new restrictions to stem the red sing infection rates in the pandemic and so we have already started work as the chancellor effectively. started work as the chancellor effectively- started work as the chancellor effectivel . . , ~ ., effectively. but that is when angela merkel leaves effectively. but that is when angela merkel leaves and effectively. but that is when angela merkel leaves and she effectively. but that is when angela merkel leaves and she takes - effectively. but that is when angela merkel leaves and she takes over. l merkel leaves and she takes over. thank you very much and will be keeping you in touch with this. we ll be coming back to you for the full update on covid 19 in germany. but as we turn our attention to t
with the holiday period coming up, there are bound to be loads of gatherings and there is an expectation that the government is going to hold another briefing in which the lockdown regulations will most probably be made stricter. south africa raised the alarm about omicron on november 24th. within days, botswana announced that genomic surveillance detected four earlier cases on the 11th of november. since then its spread to ghana and nigeria in west africa . here s the concern of the world health organisation in africa. in africa, the omicron variant is at 54% in covid 19 infections. it should be noted that it is mostly in southern africa. while new covid 19 cases are rising in southern africa, they have dropped in all other subregions during the past week from the previous week.
omicron is now in every continent bar antactica. 2a countries have confirmed cases, india is one of them. in the past 2a hours, two people in the southern state of karnataka are infected, they had recently travelled from south africa. officials are worried about a repeat of this, the second devastating wave of delta in april and may. cases reached 400,000 a day, pushing the health system close to collapse. here s yotiga limaye on the government s response to omicron. people have been arriving to other parts of the world in south africa have tested positive for covid 19, they have also been sent in for genome sequencing. from wednesday, the government has introduced restrictions for people arriving in at risk countries, which include nations like the uk, south africa, hong kong, bangladesh, new zealand and israel. so, passengers were