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.