Danger! New variant Omicron is 6 times more transmissible than Delta: Details

The new Covid variant Omicron has six times higher potential to spread (R value) than the Delta variant, according to a first “image” of this new variant initially detected in South Africa.

On the three-dimensional “image”, which looks like a map, “we can clearly see that the Omicron variant presents many more mutations than the Delta variant, experts suggest that it has six times higher potential to spread (R value) than the Delta variant that had triggered the second wave in India.

It could also evade the immune system. It may also cause vaccine breakthrough infections. concentrated above all in one area of the protein that interacts with human cells”, the team of researchers said in a statement Sunday. “This does not automatically mean that these variations are more dangerous, just that the virus has further adapted to the human species by generating another variant,” the researchers said.

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In India Amid the rising threats of new covid variant, Omicron, the Union Health Ministry on Sunday revised the guidelines for international arrivals in India to be effective from December 1. The government mandates submitting 14 days travel details, uploading negative.

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RT-PCR test report on Air Suvidha portal before the journey. As per Health Ministry’s guidelines, the travellers from ‘countries at-risk’ will need to take COVID test post arrival and wait for results at airport. If tested negative they’ll follow, home quarantine for 7 days.