In omicron hot spot, somber mood as S Africa faces variant: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in the news: In omicron hot spot, somber mood as S Africa faces variant: The overcast, drizzly skies match the somber mood at the Tshwane University of Technology, a hot spot in South Africa’s latest surge of COVID-19 cases, apparently driven by the new omicron variant … … [Read more...] about In omicron hot spot, somber mood as S Africa faces variant