The government is rolling out two new vaccination schemes—inoculation of the 15-18 age group and a booster or protection dose for frontline workers and senior citizens from the new year. With new developments daily on Omicron’s superpowers in breaching barriers, the question that naturally pops to mind is just where are we headed.
With less than a thousand Omicron cases reported in the country (the overall cases are still around 75,000), it may be too early to say what is in store for India, although studies like those of IIT Kanpur are predicting the wave to peak in February. The good news, say experts, is that Omicron, while a furious spreader, appears to be milder. “Unlike Delta, which went straight for the lungs and took the breath away, Omicron shows an affinity for the upper respiratory tract, causing more symptoms of cough and cold,” said Jayaprakash Muliyil, chair of the National Institute of Epidemiology’s scientific advisory committee.
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