Better to act now, else to feel sorry later – Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO, COVID-19 Tech Lead on Omicron and its circulation worldwide.
The newly circulating COVID-19 variant –‘Omicron’ is clamping up the chart at an aggressive rate just in few days or a couple of weeks. Having detected initially in South Africa and Botswana, it has spread to a wider extent across the globe, infecting larger people and the numbers are multiplying quickly without showing mercy to any of the groups out there- seniors or juniors. As per the current data available on WHO’s site, Omicron is taking over Delta in many parts of the world and its statistics are changing each day. Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical lead, WHO Health Emergencies Programme has tried to explain the behaviour and patterns of this newly detected mutant worldwide. What do we know about Omicron as the new COVID variant? "Omicron is the latest variant of concern that WHO is tracking, has been detected around the world. It is efficiently transmitting. And in fact everywhere where we have good sequencing, this variant is being detected, so it is circulating g