This is a very serious situation and only the very beginning of an extreme acceleration of the spread of the disease.
The Omicron coronavirus strain has an extremely high speed of spread.
This was stated by David Nabarro, Special Representative of the World Health Organization for the fight against COVID-19, – informs Sky News.
According to him, this strain is spreading extremely quickly, with a doubling of the number of cases every two to three days.
In such conditions, it will be possible to avoid high mortality only with great luck.
The WHO Special Representative believes that this is a very serious situation and only the very beginning of an emergency acceleration of the spread of the disease.
In connection with Omicron, it is necessary to continue to vaccinate the population, including distributing booster doses of vaccines. And it is also necessary to reduce the spread of the virus by minimizing social contacts to all people without exception.
The expert admitted that he did not know how serious the situation that would develop in the future would be, but urged to take his words seriously.
“I believe that a very serious problem will appear in the coming weeks,” he summed up.
Recall that scientists from Hong Kong have proven the impotence of two most popular vaccines against the new variant of the Omicron virus. Pfizer-BioNTech or Coronavac does not produce sufficient serum antibodies.
