Omicron's first victim arrives.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that at least one patient with the new variant has died in the United Kingdom.
The Press Association reports.
Johnson told reporters this while visiting a vaccination center in Paddington, west London.
The British premier stressed that the idea that Omicron is a less dangerous variant is to be "put aside" and that it is necessary to "simply recognize the pace at which it accelerates through the population".
"So the best thing we can do is get vaccinated with booster doses," he concluded.
About 40% of the new Covid infections recorded in London are caused by the Omicron variant,
said the British Minister of Health, Sajid Javid, worried about the exponential increase in cases, which tend to double within two to three days. With these rhythms the Omicron is destined to quickly overcome the Delta, thus becoming dominant.
Even Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking to reporters at a vaccination center in London, underlined the alarming surge in cases and said that it is expected in the British capital and other areas of the United Kingdom that the infections from Omicron are destined to surpass those. powered by the Delta variant. "By tomorrow it will be the majority of cases and it is increasing more and more '', said the prime minister, according to whom it is increasingly evident, as the Health Minister had already declared, the very high transmissibility of this new mutation of the virus. Furthermore, for the premier, the risk is very high that the spread of the variant could reach numbers such as to fill the hospitals with patients in absolute numbers even with a relatively limited percentage of symptomatic cases.
And China has also identified its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in Tianjin, 150 kilometers east of Beijing, after carrying out the sequencing of the genome.
This was reported by the Chinese media citing the Tianjin Center for Prevention and Control of the epidemic.