WHO specifies reasons of Omicron’s spread
The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that the spread of Omicron is caused by a set of factors, including the make-up of the Coronavirus variant and the increase in social mixing.
France Press quoted Maria Van Kerkhove, the COVID-19 Technical Lead of the WHO, as saying that “Omicron transmitted very efficiently between people due to a number of reasons. Firstly, its mutations allow the virus to adhere to human cells more easily. Second, is that we have what is called immune escape. And this means that people can be re-infected either if they had a previous infection or if they’ve been vaccinated”.
“People therefore needed to think about reducing their exposure to the virus and take control over its transmission, following a week of record numbers of new cases,” she added.
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Hamda Mustafa