THE Omicron Covid variant multiplies 70 times faster than Delta in human airways but 10 time slower in the lungs, new research has found. Scientists at the University of Hong Kong say the findings …
“By infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic,” he said.
They said that 24 hours after infection, the Omicron variant "replicated around 70 times higher than the Delta variant and the original Sars-CoV-2 virus". Dr Meaghan Kall, an epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency, said care homes and hospital wards were seeing up to 80 per cent of people infected.: "They are mostly asymptomatic and mild infections. I remain optimistic about omicron being milder."Omicron is not necessarily milder than previous strains of the virus as data from South Africa suggest.
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