: Explainer: How severe are Omicron infections? #IndiaNEWS With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading fast across the globe, scientists have been trying to understand its ability to break

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Explainer: How severe are Omicron infections? #IndiaNEWS
With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading fast across the globe, scientists have been trying to understand its ability to break past the current protection afforded by vaccines and cause severe disease.Data on the Omicron variant, first reported to the World Health Organisation on November 24, remains preliminary but most studies suggest it is more transmissible than even the Delta variant that caused India’s deadly second wave of Covid-19 this summer.The World Health Organisation has observed that Omicron is spreading at a rate not seen with previous variants. Scroll.in looked at the evidence available to understand the efficacy of vaccines against Omicron and the severity of disease that it causes.A highly transmissible variant with global spreadMany European countries, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, have been recording their highest daily cases in several weeks. The World Health Organisation on Saturday said Omicron has been detected in 89 countries and continues to spread. The Netherlands on Saturday announced a strict lockdown extending till January 14, the BBC reported.A month since South Africa detected the first Omicron case, the country’s daily cases have touched 26,000-28,000, up from 300 in early November. In South Africa, the Omicron variant makes up 98% of genome sequenced samples. In the...Read more

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