There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the new variants of Covid-19 and its vaccines in India. Ever since the vaccination have been started, everybody is getting desperate and anxious about the availability and adverse side effects of Covid vaccine. India is gearing up to confront its single biggest public health challenge and prepares to launch the largest-ever mass immunization drive, many questions are in minds of common people with regards to COVID-19 and its variants.
Health experts are globally warning people about the severe risk and complications involved among the patients who are suffering from COVID-19, and are with dangerously low oxygen levels.
A COVID task force official recently said that the next coronavirus wave is likely to hit the country in another 6 to 8 coming months as a case a new variant of coronavirus is said to be arriving soon. But the officials said that even though the Omicron BA.2 is more infectious than the previously found BA.1 subvariant, it will not cause another rise of COVID-19 wave.
In an exclusive interaction with Healthwire Media, Dr. Preet Pal Thakur the Co-founder of Glamyo Health, a multi-speciality healthcare provider answered all the questions related to COVID-19:
“The new variant of coronavirus that we call Omicron which first originated in South Africa and since then it has been a matter of concern for everyone. This variant is said to be highly transmissible than the other variants of COVID-19, well the omicron variant does not affect the lungs as the delta variant of coronavirus did. But as the vaccination has been started the fear among people have reduced a lot even though people have many questions in their mind,” said Dr. Preet Pal Thakur.