In an interview that will be very reassuring but, at the same time, takes a very different position to the common perception of the new variant discovered in South Africa, called Omicron by the WHO, Shahid Jameel, one of India’s top Virologists, has said “there is a bit of exaggeration in the superlatives being used to describe Omicron”. BBC reports state scientists have called it “horrific” and the “worst one yet”. Shahid Jameel says: “Let us not be guided by emotion but by data. Don’t jump the gun and say vaccines will fail or it (Omicron) is six times more infectious than Delta. This is all speculation.”
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