South African scientists see no indication that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is causing more severe illness. South African hospital data show that COVID-19 hospitalizations are currently increasing rapidly, but mortality is not increasing.
Also, scientists in the course of observations found that at the moment in South Africa the average length of stay in the hospital of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus also remains at the same level. It is reported by Reuters.
At the same time, the Minister of Health of the Republic of South Africa Joe Fahla stressed that more time is needed to come to a final conclusion regarding the danger of the Omicron strain.
“Preliminary data does suggest that the increase in hospitalizations is not due to any particular severity of the Omicron option itself,” the minister said.
According to the portal Worldometer, as of December 10 in the Republic of South Africa recorded more than 3 million cases of COVID-19… Overcame 2.8 million South Africans. but the disease has led to more than 90 thousand deaths.
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Recall anesthesiologist Sergey Dubrov said that vaccination is the most effective method of preventing severe course and mortality from coronavirus infection. but there is no data yet on how effective vaccines against COVID-19 will be against the new, more mutated strain of Omicron.
At the same time, preliminary research results showed that the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine from the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech can neutralize the new Omicron strain… Two doses of the drug may not be enough.
According to the World Health Organization, A new variant of coronavirus B.1.1.529 was first detected in South Africa. It contains 32 spike protein mutations, many of which indicate probable vaccine resistance. In total, the new strain has about 50 mutations, including 10 in the part of the virus that first comes into contact with cells.
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