shabir madhi is a professor of vaccinology in south africa from vits university inj0hannesburg where the 0micron variant was first detected and she said that while the number of cases in the country were continuing to rise rapidly as far as he could determine they weren t seeing a correlation with a rise in mortality rates. so the epicentre of this outbreak was in a province known as gauteng, which is the most densely populated province in south africa and i think it is bestjust to sort of reflect on what is happening in this province. currently, we have been identifying in the region of 9000 10,000 new cases per day but that seems to have plateaued in the last few days and 95% of those cases are 0micron. to put that into context, south africa is about 13 times less number of tests per capita compared with what happens in the uk. so the 10,000 we have been reporting is the tip of the iceberg in that scenario, relative to what you would have