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Are we looking at another Omicron surge? WHO on severity, transmissibility of subvariant BA.2

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With the increasing number of sub-variances of Omicron, do we see other omicron surges in the coming days? Responding to this, said the world health orgasination official (WHO) said, considering how fast the variant peaked and then declined, we must now see if there is a slowdown in decline or we will begin to see an increase again. And, if there is an increase in the case again, then we can see further infections from BA.2.

Noted that the UN health agency tracked several sub-lineages in Omicron, which Maria Van Kerkhove said extraordinary to see how fast Omicron had taken over Delta and among the available sequences we saw an increase in the number of sublineAge ba.2 cases This subvarian seems to “continue to increase” and its prevalence has increased in South Africa, Denmark, Britain and other countries.

How severe and infectious BA.2?

There are many ongoing research comparing the various sublineage from Omicron -What we know about the transmission, severity and impact of their vaccines “Now among all subvarians, ba.2 is more contagious than BA.1. However, there is no difference in terms of severity.”

Which also shows that all other Coronavirus variants, including Alpha, Beta and Delta, continue to decline globally as Omicron mobilizes them. Among the more than 400,000 sequences of the Covid-19 virus uploaded to the largest virus database in the world last week, more than 98% are Omicron.

How continued Covid waves can be avoided?

Time and again, who officials have shown the role of the Covid vaccine in reducing the risks associated with infection. They confirmed that even though the transmission of the virus could not be stopped at this time, the rate of hospitalization and death could be reduced very largely In a recent interview, the head of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreesus also said, “Our hope is that the acute phase of this pandemic will end this year, of course with one condition, 70% vaccination (the target is reached) in the middle of this year around June July “

16 mn case, 75,000 deaths were reported last week The UN health agency said on Tuesday on Tuesday in its weekly report on the pandemic that only more than 16 million new Covid-19 infections and around 75,000 deaths were reported throughout the world last week Western Pacific is the only area to report a new weekly case increase, an increase of around 19%, Southeast Asia reported a decline of around 37%, the biggest drop globally. The number of deaths rose 38% in the Middle East and about one third in the Western Pacific However, they show that the decrease in the number of cases may be due at the level of testing throughout the world However, health officials have noted that Omicron caused a lighter disease than the previous Covid-19 variant and in countries with high levels of vaccination, hospitalization and mortality rates have not increased substantially, even with the spread of omicron.

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