Singapore — A well known infectious disease specialist in private practice predicts that the newly-discovered Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 is likely to “overwhelm the whole world” by the first half of next year, if not sooner.
“But frankly, Omicron will dominate and overwhelm the whole world in three to six months,” added Dr Leong.- Advertisement 1-“We won’t be able to rush out the vaccines in time and by the time the vaccines come, practically everyone will be infected [with] Omicron given this high infectious and transmissibility.”
The variant has an “incredibly high amount of spike mutations suggest this could be of real concern,” echoedOn the ground in South Africa, however, how seriously ill those infected with the Omicron variant will be won’t be known until “people get so sick that they need to go to hospital” which typically occurs “three, four weeks later,” Prof Salim Abdool Karim of the Africa Task Force for Coronavirus told theSo far, most of those known to be infected with the new variant in South Africa have...
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