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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• covid-19
• omicron
• sgtf
• vaccination
• covaxin
• covishield