Acta Medica Martiniana (Aug 2022)

Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: An observational study from a hospital in Southern India

  • Rangarajan Jayanthi,
  • Jayanandan Rajesh,
  • Pravin Kumar Raviganesh,
  • Murugan Arun,
  • Gnanavel Pavithra,
  • Devasena N

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2022-0010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 2
pp. 79 – 90

Abstract

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The Omicron variant rapidly outpaced Delta with documented community transmission in most countries and has led to an upsurge in cases in most regions. Since its initial detection from a specimen collected on November 8th 2021, Omicron amounted to 74.0% of the genome sequenced in South Africa and more than 99.0% in rest of the world.

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