COVID-19 is on the rise in many countries and opening up too quickly can have a dangerous ‘dual effect’ given the high omicron transmissibility being reported around the world, Dr Mike Ryan, XD, WHO Health Emergency Status program, has said. ,
Dr Ryan said the reproduction (R-number) number has gone above 1 in many countries, so effective transmission has resumed. “But what we have seen in countries that have high levels of vaccination, especially among vulnerable people, is to continue to have that high incidence of pressure on the health system and high rates of hospital admissions and high rates of death.
“When you open up as early as some countries, you will get that jump in transmission. If you add to that the enhanced communicativeness of BA.2, you can have a double effect. In all countries that are focusing on immunization of the most vulnerable, this does not necessarily result in a massive increase in pressure on the health system.”
He also said that it does not increase the death rate. “Good surveillance and good tracking are linked to measures that reduce transmission and protect individuals.” Dr Ryan also said that the good news is that vaccination also has a dual effect – it saves lives and protects health systems.
The new variant is worse than Omron:-
England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has said that the world has a long way to go before it becomes Covid-free. He also believes that Covid-19 is going to be around forever and there will always be the same death threat as the flu.
However, several other experts tried to allay the fears surrounding Covid, saying it would now only mutate to a mild cold-causing pathogen. As COVID progressed from the pandemic phase to endemic, Whitty said the virus would now become ‘less effective’. He also said that it is too early to think that Kovid has reached a ‘steady state’.
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“We may well end up with a newer version that causes worse problems than Omicron and the Omicron problems are by no means trivial,” Whitty said at the local government’s association public health conference. daily mail Reported.
Omicron+Delta Recombinant Virus:-
Delta + Omicron recombinant virus There is a hybrid version of the coronavirus that combines genes from delta and omicron variants. After the World Health Organization (WHO) recently detected the first concrete evidence of a combination virus (Omicron and Delta) suggesting that both Omicron and Delta COVID-19 types are rapidly spreading, recombinants were expected. .
WHO officials also said that “while we allow the virus to transmit at a rapid level it continues to evolve and more forms are expected.” Recently, another recombinant COVID strain was also detected from Israel that combines Omicron BA.1 and BA.2.
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