The new variant, considered worrisome by the WHO, was first detected in southern Africa.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has no record for now of any death linked to the omicron variant of the coronavirus, said one of its spokesmen in Geneva on Friday.
“I have not seen any information on omicron-related deaths,” Christian Lindmeier told a news conference in Geneva.
But taking into account that many countries increase their tests to try to detect the new variant, “we will surely have more cases, more information and, hopefully not, possibly deaths,” he said.
The new variant, considered worrisome by the WHO, was first detected in southern Africa but since the South African authorities alerted the world of its discovery, on November 24, cases of covid due to omicron have been registered in some 30 countries in all continents.
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Among them are infections linked to travel to southern Africa, but also cases of local transmission.
The WHO considers that the probability that omicron will spread throughout the world is “high” although there are many unknowns about the real danger and transmissibility of this variant. (I)
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