“Current vaccines no doubt protect against Omigran”

“There is no doubt that current vaccines protect patients with Omicron’s form from severe forms of COVID-19,” Michael Ryan, the WHO’s person in charge of emergencies, told AFP on Tuesday.

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“We have by far some of the most effective vaccines against all variants based on the severity of the disease and hospitalization, and there is no reason to believe that it will not,” Dr. Omigron explained. Ryan, in a rare interview.

“The general behavior we see so far has not shown any increase in severity. In fact, some places in South Africa are reporting mild symptoms,” the doctor added, as he had previously told the AFP, as the famous American scientist Anthony Fossi had said.

Dr. Ryan said that we were at the beginning of the study of a variation that was only discovered on November 24 by the South African authorities, and should be very careful in analyzing these data, however, Dr. Ryan said. And it was found in dozens of countries.

The origin of this variation has caused some panic, especially in Europe in the grip of a massive fifth wave of Covit-19 cases already caused by the delta variation.