Prognosis
Omicron Symptoms ‘Far Milder,’ South Africa Hospital Group CEO Says
- Netcare CEO says admissions may be decoupling from infections
- Netcare operates South Africa’s biggest private hospital group
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Netcare Ltd., which operates the largest private health-care network in South Africa, is seeing milder Covid-19 cases even as omicron is driving up the number of people testing positive for the virus.
The symptoms displayed by patients in Netcare’s hospitals in the epicenter of the current fourth wave, the province of Gauteng, “are far milder than anything we experienced during the first three waves,” Chief Executive Officer Richard Friedland said in a statement Wednesday.