Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: An observational study from a hospital in Southern India

oleh: Rangarajan Jayanthi, Jayanandan Rajesh, Pravin Kumar Raviganesh, Murugan Arun, Gnanavel Pavithra, Devasena N

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Sciendo 2022-08-01

Deskripsi

The Omicron variant rapidly outpaced Delta with documented community transmission in most countries and has led to an upsurge in cases in most regions. Since its initial detection from a specimen collected on November 8th 2021, Omicron amounted to 74.0% of the genome sequenced in South Africa and more than 99.0% in rest of the world.