WHO’s warning on Omicron

Katherine Smalwolod said, the more Omicron spreads, the more it circulates, and the more it replicates, the more likely it is that a new variant will emerge. Now, Omicron is deadly, it can cause death Amid rapidly increasing cases of corona, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe warned on Tuesday that the increasing cases of Omicron around the world could be due to the emergence of a new and more dangerous variant. can increase the risk. In many countries including Britain and France, more than one lakh cases are being reported daily.

‘Omicron visible slightly less than Delta’
Smallwood said, “The more Omicron spreads, the more it circulates and the more it replicates, the more likely it is that a new variant will emerge. Now, Omicron is lethal, it can cause death… maybe a little less than Delta, but who can say what might happen in the next variant,”

While the Omicron variant is spreading like wildfire around the world, it appears to be much less serious than initially feared and has raised hopes that it could stave off the pandemic and make life more normal. Maybe. But WHO’s senior emergency official Katherine Smallwood told AFP news agency that rising infection rates could have the opposite effect.

Europe will have a UK-like situation: Katherine Smallwood
Smallwood also noted that “the risk of hospitalization at the individual level is probably lower” with the Omicron variant than Delta, overall, Omicron may pose a higher risk because of the number of cases. He said that when you see that there has been such an increase in the cases, it is likely to generate a lot more people with serious illness, the hospital space is getting less and the situation is getting dire.

Smallwood, a senior official of the World Health Organization, said that more than 100 million corona cases have been registered in Europe since the start of the epidemic, and more than 5 million new cases have been registered in the last week of 2021. “We are in a very dangerous phase, we are seeing a significant increase in infection rates in Western Europe, and the full impact of this is not yet clear,” he said.