Frightening data on the rate of Omikron infections. The new variant spreads much faster than the previous one
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As much as 20-fold increase in infections with the Omikron variant in just nine days was recorded in Great Britain. Previous variants had a much lower spread rate. Scientists say the new COVID-19 variant will supplant Delta and dominate Europe by February.

  1. In Great Britain, on December 5, almost 250 cases of Omikron were diagnosed, and nine days later as many as 5,3 thousand.
  2. According to WHO, the Omikron variant could soon dominate Europe, which is still struggling with the Delta mutation
  3. The latest strain of the coronavirus has the ability to spread rapidly among humans. However, there is a chance that patients will suffer less severely, which will reduce the number of necessary hospitalizations
  4. According to experts, vaccines alone will not bring any country out of the pandemic crisis, it is also necessary to comply with the rules of the sanitary regime
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«The omicron is spreading at a pace we have not seen in any previous variant. I must say this very clearly. Vaccines alone will not bring any country out of this crisis»- wrote Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General on social media.

Omicron. Infection record in Great Britain

These words are confirmed in the statistics. Great Britain was the first country to release the Pfizer product. So far, more than 68 percent have been vaccinated. the whole of society. Nevertheless, a new infection record was broken in the UK on Wednesday. Positive test result was found in over 78 thousand. people.

According to the data collected by the AFP agency, Omikron has a much higher growth rate than other COVID-19 variants known so far. In Great Britain alone, almost 5 cases of Omikron were diagnosed on December 250, and nine days later as many as 5,3 thousand. That’s more than a 20-fold increase! The Delta variant took about 70 days to obtain this daily result. However, the Beta and Gamma variants never reached this level.

— I’m afraid there will be more and more Omicron patients going to the National Health Service — note ed.), admitted to hospital, going to intensive care. We don’t know the exact proportions yet, but there will be significant numbers that I think will start coming out right after Christmas — said prof. Chriss Whitty, chief physician of England.

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Researchers: Omikron will soon dominate Europe

Continental Europe seems to have even more problems, while at the same time facing the problem of hospitalization and deaths caused by the Delta variant, as well as the spread of Omicron. As predicted by researchers from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Omikron will become the dominant variant on the continent in the first two months of the new year.

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— A possible scenario is that we will have more cases of a lower severity. This means that fewer people will have to go to hospital — says Dr. Andrew Badley, an infectious disease specialist, quoted by vox.com.

Denmark, which has seen an increase in cases attributed to the new Omikron variant, and some regions in Austria started offering vaccinations to younger children as early as November. Other European countries are also facing similar problems. So far, the vaccination campaign of children aged 5-11 has been decided by, among others, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland and Spain. Soon they will be joined by Italy, Portugal, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic. In Germany and France, children with comorbidities and medical burdens will be vaccinated first.

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Omikron – what is this COVID-19 variant?

Omikron is a variant of COVID-19 that was discovered in late November in South Africa. The distinguishing feature of the Omikron variant is a large number of mutations that may facilitate its spread, affect the course of the infection and increase its resistance to vaccines. We write more about the new variety here.

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