Japanese study: Mutant “Omicron” is four times more infectious than “Delta”...

The study, led by Japanese scientist advising the government, Hiroshi Nishiura, a professor of health and environmental sciences at Kyoto University who specializes in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, analyzed genome data available as of November 26 in South Africa in Gauteng province.

“The mutant omicron,” Nishiura said in his findings, which were presented at a meeting of the Health Ministry’s advisory committee, on Wednesday. move moreIt escapes from natural immunity and forms the largest escape from vaccines immunity,” Bloomberg reported.

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Nishiura’s study has not been reviewed or published in a scientific journal, but the new analysis was conducted using the same method as a study published in July by the medical journal Euro Survival on expected delta dominance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

There is widespread fear that Omicron could deal the world an even bigger blow than Delta, and the World Health Organization has warned that it could lead to “serious consequences”.

But the jump in cases in South Africa in the wake of the emergence of the mutant Hospitals are not overcrowded Yet, leading to some optimism that it may only cause mostly mild illness.