‘Was shocked’: South African Doctor who first flagged COVID Omicron variant

Dec 02, 2021

Pretoria (South Africa), Dec 02 (ANI): South African Medical Association Chairperson Dr Angelique Coetzee was the first person to alert government scientists to possibility of a new variant- Omicron. “I was shocked...I was thinking what are we going to do as we hadn't seen, for quite a few weeks, COVID patients anymore,” Dr Angelique Coetzee to ANI.