Geneva: Omicron quickly overtakes the Delta variant from Covid-19 and becomes dominant throughout the world, a senior official has warned, with global health institutions warn that there is “increased evidence” omicron can avoid immunity but has fewer diseases of severity levels compared to Other variants.
It can take time for Omicron to overtake deltas in several countries, because it depends on the level of circulation of Delta variants in these countries, epidemiology of infectious diseases and Covid-19 technical advantages in the World Health Organization (WHO) Maria Van Kerkhove said on Tuesday.
“Omicron has been detected in all countries where we have a good order and is likely to be in all countries around the world.
Quickly, in terms of circulation, overtaking deltas.
And so Omicron becomes a dominant variant detected.,” Kerkhove said during the session of the question and Virtual answer.
He further warned that even though there were some information that caused Omicron to cause diseases that were less severe than Delta, “it is not a minor illness” because “the people are still being hospitalized because Omicron.” Covid-19 weekly epidemiology update, released by WHO, said that more than 15 million new Covid-19 cases were reported globally on Sunday 3-9 January, a 55 percent increase compared to the previous week when around 9.5 million.
Reported cases.
More than 43,000 new deaths were reported in the past week.
On January 9, more than 304 million cases of COVD-19 were confirmed and more than 5.4 million deaths had been reported.
The number of new cases reported from the US (4,610,359 new cases; an increase of 73 percent), France (1,597,203 new cases; an increase of 46 percent), England (1,217,258 new cases; an increase of 10 percent), Italy (1,014,358 New case; 57 percent increase) and India (638,872 new cases; increase of 524 percent), the word update.
Kerkhove said 15 million cases reported in the last seven days were “high records in this pandemic” and were “underestimating” given the challenges in supervision throughout the world and the Mandiri Covid-19 test in homes that were not registered.
The WHO update said that the omicron variant has a substantial growth advantage and quickly replaces other variants.
“This variant has been shown to have a shorter doubling time compared to the previous variant, with transmission occurring even among those who are vaccinated or with the history of the previous SARS-COV-2 infection; there was an increase in evidence that this variant was able to avoid this immunity” the update said .
It is said that in terms of severity of the disease, there is evidence that the omicron variant is less severe compared to other variants.
Citing a non-peer retrospective cohort study from the US, renewal said the findings showed that while the absolute number of cases and hospitalization among children currently increasing in the US, the risk of hospitalization is still lower than other age groups during the period when omicron is circulating Compared to the period when the Delta variant is dominant.
The update also noted that since December, six studies have provided evidence of the effectiveness of the reduced vaccine (VE) Covid-19 vaccine against the omicron variant.
“While the initial estimation of the Omicron variant must be carefully interpreted because of the potential bias, this initial results provide evidence of reduced the effectiveness of the overall vaccine against the omicron variant, with a greater decrease in effectiveness due to vaccination, relative to Delta..
While booster vaccination seems to be Improving infection and inpatient care because the omicron variant, more data is needed to assess the size and duration of protection, “said the update.
The WHO technical advisory group on the Covid-19 vaccine composition (tag-co-vac) said that when Coronavirus developed, the composition of the Covid-19 vaccine might now need to be updated, to ensure that “Covid-19 vaccine continues to provide who – communication of the level of protection against Infection and disease by the VOC, including the omicron and future variants.
“Kerkhove added that as omicrons entered and circulated among vulnerable populations,” we will see an increase in hospitalization and death.
So please treat this virus as seriously to be treated.
Narration that It is an ordinary flu is not true.
The narrative was only light incorrect.
So we have to really fight against it.
Not the time to give up.
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