Nearly two years into Covid-19 pandemic, the world races Friday to load the new Coronavirus variant – B.1.1.529 – Potentially more dangerous than those who have triggered a wave of nonstop infections in almost every continent. The World Health Organization Panel named the “Omicron” variant and classified it as a very transmitting virus, the same category that includes the dominant Delta variant, which is still a specter riding cases of disease and death in Europe and parts of the United States.
The actual risk of Omicron has not been understood. But initial evidence shows that it brings an increased risk of reinfection compared to other very contagious variants, WHO said. That means people who sign covid-19 and recover can be returned again. It takes weeks to find out whether the vaccine is currently less effective against it.
As a number of countries – the United States, Canada, Russia – limit the journey for visitors from the region, this is what the international health agency has been said to now about the variant:
• WHO Panels – Technical Advisory Groups about the evolution of the SARS-COV-2 virus – regrouped on November 26 to assess the new Covid-19 variant named after the letter in the Greek alphabet.
Which marks a different peak in the case reported in South Africa. Of the more than 200 new cases confirmed per day in the past few weeks, the area has seen the number of new daily rocket cases to 2,465 on Thursday. Struggling to explain a sudden increase in cases, scientists studied the sample virus from the plague and found a new variant. Infection B.1.1.529 The first known confirmed comes from the specimens collected on November 9, 2021, reports with the body’s health.
• Variants have a large number of mutations, some of them are concerned, which says, adding that in accordance with the initial evidence, increased risk of reinfection is assumed to this variant, compared to other ‘variants of concern’.