South African experts to meet over new Covid variant
South Africans shouldn't worry, President Ramaphosa encouraged local journalists as he announced the meeting on Tuesday.
Francis Boakye 
Tuesday's National Coronavirus Command Council meeting is planned to be called by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss a new variation that has been found in the nation this week.
XBB.1.5, the new Covid sub-variant, has also been discovered in the US and the UK.
It is a worldwide dominating Omicron Covid variant branch and is very contagious.
South Africans shouldn't worry, President Ramaphosa encouraged local journalists as he announced the meeting on Tuesday.
He said to Eyewitness News on Monday, "We are quick enough to want to have that meeting tomorrow, and after that, there will be information that will be shared with the rest of the country.
"Some individuals have asked if there will be limits, a lockdown, and other things. — not at all. According to the Business Day news site, he continued, "We simply need to be informed about what's occurring with this variety.
At the height of the pandemic, South Africa had the greatest number of confirmed cases of any African country with over three million Covid-19 infections.
