London: The new Omicron subcapturist of Covid-19 was almost as infectious as measles, one of the most contagious diseases in human history, a virus expert warned The variant – Dubtabred Deltacron, because it combines elements of Omicron and Delta variants – has been detected in some parts of France and is included to circulate since January Professor Adrian Esterman, former epidemiologist of the World Health Organization, told ABC News that even if the symptoms of deltacron were no longer serious than Omicron, it was more communicable.
He said, “That means we’re going to see the case numbers soar In a tweet, he added: “Omicron BA.2 is about 1.4 times more infectious than Ba.1. The basic reproduction number (R0) for BA.1 is about 8.2, making R0 for BA.2 about 12. This makes it fairly close to measles, the most contagious disease we know. Some cases of the last variant have been detected so far and it was not yet clear how vaccines would occur against it In a tweet, Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist of WHO, said: “We knew that recombinant events can occur, in humans or animals, with multiple circulating variants of # SARSCOV2.
“Need to wait for experiments to determine the properties of this virus. Importance of fast sequencing, analysis and sharing of rapid data as we treat this pandemic. Also in a tweet, the COVID-19 technical head for WHO, Maria Van Kerkhove, said his team was “followed and discussing” the new variant.