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Omicron may not be as ‘mild’ as you think

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Omicron may not be as ‘mild’ as you think

  • Mild? Think again: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed the country’s first death from the Omicron variant of Covid-19. “The idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus” is “something we need to set on one side,” he said. This is also the first known death in the world from the Omicron variant, which has been reported to cause mild illness.
  • Booster boost: Johnson’s warning resulted in long queues of people lining up for booster doses of the vaccines on Monday. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said that the Omicron variant accounted for about 40% of infections in London.
  • Vax wanes: A new study by Oxford University, says that when Omicron was introduced in the blood samples of fully vaccinated people — either two doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine or two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine — 28 days after the second dose, there was “a substantial fall” in the antibody count vis-a-vis the antibody response seen against earlier variants.
  • How’s India faring?

    • With two more cases of Omicron being confirmed on Monday — one from Latur and another from Pune — the country’s count of the new variant touched 40, with 50% of them from Maharashtra.
    • The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the Omicron variant poses a “very high” global risk and “severe consequences” as early evidence suggests that even fully vaccinated and previously infected people will not build enough antibodies to ward off an infection. Case in point: the two cases detected in Maharashtra on Monday were fully vaccinated people who had travelled to Dubai.
  • This article fragment shared form the Times of India 

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