THE IMPACT OF THE CONTAGIOUS OMICRON VARIANT

Fredrick Omondi
2 min readJan 4, 2022

COVID-19 UPDATES

As the world is seeing a huge flood in the cases attributable to the exceptionally contagious Omicron variation, WHO COVID-19 specialized head Maria Van Kerkhove on Tuesday cautioned that this new variation was not simply a ‘typical virus’. Taking it to Twitter, Maria Van expressed however the Omicron causes less significant disease than different types of the infection, such a large number of individuals were being hospitalized and passing on from the infection. She further added that through immunization value, diseases could be forestalled. Immunization value guarantees that COVID-19 antibodies are conveyed decently to all populaces, and are open to all disregarding individuals’ financial status.

MARIA VAH KERKHOVE

“Omicron is NOT the common cold. While some reports show a reduced risk of hospitalisation of Omicron compared to Delta, there are still far too many people infected, in hospital sick & dying from Omicron (& Delta). We can prevent infections, save lives now,” Maria Said in her twitter post.

WHO COVID specialized head anticipates the end of the pandemic in 2022

Prior In December 2021, Maria Van Kerkhove anticipated that the pandemic will be destroyed worldwide by 2022. The spreading pandemic has overwhelmed the whole world, and everybody is enduring it subsequently. As individuals were engaging the Delta variation in November, another COVID variation, Omicron arose. “2022 is the year we can end the COVID-19 pandemic as we have tools now. We can take the death out of COVID-19,” she said during the WHO Q&A session.

As indicated by a review distributed on Mckinsey, specialists foresee that COVID will be pronounced “non-pandemic” by 2022, attributable to expanded worldwide immunization rates and the presentation of antiviral COVID pills that could turn out to be all the more broadly accessible one year from now. All things considered, the infection will definitely turn into “endemic”, diminishing in seriousness and vanishing out of the spotlight of day-to-day existence. From the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 to the pig influenza pandemic of 2009, a few strains of flu have pursued a comparative direction all through the last century or thereabouts. Coronavirus, similar to influenza, is probably going to stay risky until the pandemic is finished, as indicated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the meantime, as we actually desire to see the finish of the infringing hold this pandemic has had on us and our vocation, we actually need to make sure to cling to the fundamental COVID-19 avoidance schedule that has been endorsed to us by state-run administrations around the world.
MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE, WASH HANDS WITH SOAP AND RUNNING WATER, COVER YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH AND STAY SAFE.

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