Ómicron is growing “at a rate never seen before”
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus which causes COVID-19[female[feminine has already been detected in 77 countries, although it is probably already present everywhere in the world, and that it is in full expansion “at a rate that we hadn’t seen in any of the previous strains, ”the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today.
“Probably is already in most countries, even in those which have not yet been detected “, admitted at a press conference the director general of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also warned on Monday , specifying that “an omicron tide is coming”.
This “tide” is expected to come to Spain “between the second and third week of January», As explained to the newspaper Nius Álex Arenas, physicist, professor at Rovira i Virgili University and scientific communicator.
“We have learned that underestimating this virus is dangerous”
WHO continues to warn and believes that don’t lose respect for the new variant: “People consider the Omicron variant to be associated with less severe cases, but we learned before that underestimating this virus is dangerous“Ghebreyesus said.
“Even though Omicron causes fewer severe cases, a sharp increase in infections health systems could collapse again not sufficiently prepared, “noted Ghebreyesus, who also insisted that” theVaccines alone will not reach any country of this crisis ”, since the transmission of the coronavirus must be tackled by other means, in particular the use of masks, avoidance of crowded places, good ventilation or hand hygiene.
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