The World Health Organization announced the doubling of the number of “Oomikron” strain every two to three days, and to avoid high mortality in such a situation only “with great luck”, Kommersant writes.
In addition, WHO note that the high speed of distribution of a new strain can lead to an increase in the number of hospitalizations and failures in national health systems. In the UK last week, the first person infected with “Omicron” was killed, and the number of cases doubues every two days.
Edition The Hill with reference to the study of the University of Hong Kong writes, “Oomikron” is able to infect a person 70 times faster than the previous types of COVID-19. In the course of the study, scientists checked the impact of the Emikron strain on the tissue of human lungs. It was possible to establish that 24 hours after infection, the “Oomikron” viral particles were reproduced in the affected tissues up to 70 times faster than the particles of the Delta strain and other virus options.
However, scientists found out that the scale of the reproduction of “Oomikron” turned out to be more than 10 times less than that of the original variant of the virus. As a result, it can be assumed that “Omicron” will have to cause a less serious course of the disease, explains the Hill.
One of the authors of the study Dr. Chen Zhivay clarified that the replication of the virus genome is not the only factor determining the ability of the virus to infect. He continued that the severity of the course of the disease depends not only on the contagiousness of the virus, but also from human immunity.
“In addition, it was noted that it was a very infectious virus, let it and may be less tracked, infects much more people and can cause more cases of a serious course of illness and deaths. For this reason, and taking into account our previous research on the ability “Oomikron” partially bypass immunity from vaccine and past infection, the total threat from “Oomikron” is probably very significant, “the scientist expresses anxiety.