Coronavirus: Omicron risk still ‘very high’, WHO says, as evidence mounts of it causing milder symptoms

The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, after Covid-19 case numbers shot up by 11 per cent globally last week – though lower rates of hospitalisation associated with the highly transmissible variant add to mounting evidence that it causes milder symptoms than other strains.Omicron is behind rapid virus spikes in several countries, including those where it has already overtaken the previously-dominant Delta variant, the WHO…

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