WHO named the strain found in South Africa Omicron India raised heavy concerns

 WHO named the strain found in South Africa Omicron India raised heavy concerns


WHO named the strain found in South Africa Omicron India raised heavy concerns




The World Health Organization (WHO) has named the new strain of corona virus found in South Africa Omicron and considered it a 'variant of concern'. After this, many countries have imposed travel restrictions in view of the possible spread of the variant.

WHO's technical chief Maria Wayne Kherkhov said on Friday that Omicron has seen some worrying properties, which has led to it being dubbed a 'variant of concern'. He said that many mutations have occurred in it and some of them have been shown to have worrying properties.

According to the US CDC, a strain of the virus is considered a 'variant of concern' that is more infectious, increases the number of hospitalizations and deaths and reduces the efficacy of existing vaccines against it.

It is being speculated from all these reports that the variant here can be a cause for concern. The Health Department of India has also expressed deep concern over this, not only this, the Indian Prime Minister has expressed concern and said that now we should again 'Need to be proactive and cautious'

India has not yet placed it in the serious category and according to the latest sources, it is expected to be decided soon.
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