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While South Africa is at the tail-end of its Omicron wave, many countries across the world have yet to reach a peak in their surges.

One health expert thinks that the U.S. has a much higher baseline of deaths per capita because there was a relative lack of containment during an earlier surge of the delta variant and a lack of vaccinations.

Is this the good news we've all been hoping for? Professor Abdool Karim says that Omicron 'is likely to have a positive impact' on new COVID variants.

2022 TWAS-Abdool Karim Award in Biological Sciences for women scientists in Low-Income African Countries (USD5,000 cash award) Application Deadline:20 April

The actions India did — and didn’t take — as delta emerged, ultimately saddled its people and the world with a ruthlessly virulent incarnation of the coronavirus, one that challenged vaccines and containment regimes like none before it.