Omicron inflicting extra extreme sickness than initially thought

In current days, there was a rise within the positivity fee, within the variety of sufferers affected by Covid-19 in state hospitals, but additionally within the variety of confirmed instances.

Within the final 24 hours the positivity fee was 3.06%, there have been 235 Covid-19 sufferers in state hospitals, whereas there have been 3,083 new confirmed instances. For the third day in a row, confirmed instances exceeded 3,000.

Talking to state broadcaster, epidemiologist Michael Voniatis expressed the view that the Omicron variant might trigger a extra extreme sickness than initially thought. Nonetheless, as he mentioned, it’s going through the immunity wall of people that have been vaccinated.

Dr. Voniatis warned that people who find themselves not vaccinated and haven’t been sick with Covid-19 are very uncovered to the virus.

Yesterday, 75% of individuals affected by Covid-19 in hospitals weren’t vaccinated.