Anthony Fauci Says, Early Data on Severity of Omicron Covid-19 Variant ‘Encouraging’

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said, the early data from the country of South Africa on the newly identified new Omicron covid-19 variant had been encouraging, and he also said that, but it had been too early for telling whether the Omicron covid-19 variant that has been caused only for the mild infection.

Anthony Fauci also said, until now it does not seem for being a great degree of the severity t the Omicron corona virus variant, that has been a high number of the mutations of the virus in the part of the corona virus, that are attached to the human cells.

Anthony Fauci also said, but they are now really getting to be careful before they are going to make any kind of the determinations whether it has been less serious than the Delta variant of the covid-19, and the highly infectious Delta covid-19 variant, that itself has the mutations that is helping the variant to avoid the immune response, which is the most common corona virus variant in the United States.

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He added that, so far, the signals had been a bit encouraging regarding the severity of Omicron, and the Omicron covid-19 variant had clearly been becoming the most common variant in the country of South Africa.

According to the data, the average number of the new daily novel corona virus cases per million people in the country of South Africa has been increased to 167 starting from 22nd November 2021.