‘Omicron’ will soon overtake ‘Delta’, warn experts

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Singapore: 170 new cases of Covid-19 (Corona) were reported in Singapore on Wednesday and experts warned that in the coming months, the new variant of the coronavirus may overtake the Omicron delta variant. Is. Dr. Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, executive director of the government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research Bioinformatics Institute, said the delta is still the most common form in the rest of the continent except Africa, but Omicron is spreading rapidly.

According to the Munich-based ‘GSaid’, which shares genome-related data on Covid, according to the data that has come to them from last month till Tuesday, in 7 to 27 percent of the cases, Omicron has been confirmed. These figures are in relation to the rest of the continents except Africa. “Current figures suggest that Omicron will overtake Delta over time,” Dr. Maurer Stroh of GSAID was quoted as saying by The Straits Times.

The new form of the coronavirus, Omicron, was first detected in South Africa on 11 November. It was then detected in Botswana and Hong Kong and by last weekend it has spread to more than 110 countries of the world. Omicron has spread to Australia, India, Russia, South Africa, and the UK.

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Professor Dale Fisher, the senior adviser in the National Hospital University’s Division of Infectious Diseases, said globally cases are moving from the delta to the newer form, Omicron because this form is more contagious. Fischer said that most experts in this field believe that Omicron will soon overtake Delta in terms of global dominance.

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