Top US contagious complaint expert Dr Anthony Fauci said the Omicron variant of coronavirus is “ raging through the world” as he prompted Americans to continue wearing masks and get a vaccine supporter cure. Appearing for NBC’s‘ Meet the Press’, Fauci said the new variant of concern has the extraordinary capability of spreading, adding that the United States is going to see advance infections.
“We’re going to see advance infection-there’s no mistrustfulness about that,”the top immunologist said The White House medical counsel has, still, ruled out the possibility of complete lockdown.
“ I do n’t prevision the kind of lockdowns that we ’ve seen ahead but I clearly see the eventuality for stress on our sanitarium system,” he said in a separate interview with ABC’s “ This Week. Speaking to CNN, Fauci prognosticated that stress on the medical system will be particularly acute in regions with low situations of vaccination.
Fauci’s reflections came a day the World Health Organization (WHO) verified Omicron circulating in at least 89 countries. The UN health agency said Covid cases involving the new variant of concern are doubling every1.5 to 3 days in places with community transmission. It advised that Omicron is likely to soon catch Delta as the dominant variant in countries where original transmission has taken place The worrying rate of transmission of the Omicron variant has urged countries around the world to strain trip restrictions.
The United Kingdom has been witnessing a record number of verified cases of the new variant of concern. On Sunday, the UK Health Security Agency said an fresh cases of Omicron have been verified over the former 24 hours, taking the total number of verified cases to.