As we know, new COVID variants are coming up with various mutations; starting in 2019, COVID has started with a beta variant which is not much powerful but spread all over the world within no time after some months, a new variant was generated called alpha variant within the first wave of the pandemic. This variant also has an equal spread but with an increase in mutation.
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Later, after some months, the delta variant was generated with a heavy mutation, where many people lost their lives because of negligence. The first virus is not dangerous, but the COVID strain became influential in the delta variant, taking many human lives.
Recently after a severe outbreak of COVID, a new variant named Omicron has started, which is now spreading slowly everywhere with less number of cases all over the world, and till now, omicron strain has reached 63 countries. Omicron is still not predicted to do what it can do while clinical trials are going on.
According to the study, researchers say that as before variants took time to detect what virus can do, omicrons still need time to detect what it can do and what harm it causes.
According to some sources, though very few cases of Omicron were reported, one person died due to an omicron variant, and clinical trials were going on that death by the collection of samples from him. At the start of trials, researchers reported that Omicron has more than 30 mutations which are higher than before COVID strains.
After detecting the mutations included in viruses, researchers threaten the countries to be careful and take enough precautions by maintaining social distance. If a person is affected by Omicron, he can pass the virus strain to 20 different people. So we can say that this variant has many capabilities and other details are still under clinical trials.
Researchers say that these variant strains keep repeating new ones because of clinical trials. If a clinical trial is conducted in one lab, it creates a new variant in the laboratory in some worst cases. According to some sources, laboratories are becoming the reason for new variants spreading all the time.
Many people wonder why COVID is mutating continuously; one of the lead researchers stated that “due to viruses being an infectious disease, infection will get better but never fade away,” and that’s the job of viruses.
Segreti is the lead researcher of this study; he says that “if any variant infects the person then the virus can replicate with different alterations by following the genetic code of a person” because this genetic code will reproduce new virus with heavy mutations. This is the major mistake of the virus.
Right now, the United States is suffering from transmissions of the omicron variant with a changed version of the delta variant. Some sources say that Omicron was transmitted from a South Africa country.
Many researchers remind people that Omicron will not be the last strain, and it will continue with different variants. So the only job is to be cautious and preventable with a healthy diet and proper food that keeps away the virus strain.
WHO has expressed concern towards COVID-19 that Omicron will not be the last variant expected to exceed the capacity among people transmission and says that Omicron is also named after the Greek letter same as Coronavirus.
The best concern and protection part is to get vaccinated with two doses and a new vaccine that is going to be invented in the future before enough precautions should be made at your surroundings with good hygiene maintenance.
The best protection against the delta and omicron variants is getting vaccinated or getting a booster if you are due, Segreti says.
