“The variant omicron it is extraordinarily contagious. It is as contagious as measles, and that is the most contagious virus that we have seen. “It is the warning that an expert has launched about this new strain that is triggering infections and increasing health pressure in many countries.
With the arrival of this new variant, which has replaced the delta in a matter of weeks, COVID-19 infections have skyrocketed. In Spain, for example, the incidence has exceeded and, just three days before Christmas Eve, stands at 609.39 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
And, although omicron symptoms are not so serious, they are much more contagious. This is indicated by experts such as the doctor Jonathan Reiner, who in an interview in ‘CNN‘has compared it to “the measles, the most contagious virus there is. “
Likewise, the director of Global Health and Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, Craig Spencer, has assured that “we are going to have a tsunami of cases” in the coming weeks, coinciding with the Christmas celebrations.
In this sense, the World Health Organization has called to suspend social gatherings and events because “it is better to cancel today than to celebrate and mourn tomorrow.” This has been transferred by the director of the entity, Tedros Adhanom, who has ensured that “This is very complex” and they are “very concerned about omicron.”
In addition, the WHO has confirmed that there is robust evidence that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or those who were infected in the past can contract the new variant, whose spread is accelerating day by day around the world.
In an exclusive press conference for the international press in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom pointed out that the information being analyzed about omicron indicates that this variant circulates faster than the previous ones and that “Those vaccinated and those who have been cured are likely to become infected or reinfected.”
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