Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has said he expects the Omicron variant to become dominant here in Ireland as evidence suggests it spreads faster than the Delta variant.He said the question of how severe the Omicron variant is, is still not known.
“The early evidence is very clearly pointing toward an increase of transmissibility, that seems increasingly certain. "But the important point to get across is that even if it's less severe, if it's more transmissible and can generate more cases, that itself at a population level could, paradoxically, create a significant challenge.”
He said he expects Omicron to become the dominant strain here in Ireland, adding “it spreads into the country and around the country when it arrives.”
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