Coronavirus Omicron-strain at the beginning of 2022 or even earlier will become the dominant version of COVID-19 in Switzerland, surpassing the Delta, predicted the head of the Federal Healthcare Office of Anna Levi in an interview with the Blick newspaper. Her words leads TASS.
” that this option can be dominant at the most later at the beginning of the year, and perhaps even earlier.
According to Levi, urgent measures must be taken. At the same time, she drew attention to the “risk of excessive loading of intensive therapy offices.” “It is very important to repay [the current] wave of delta option as soon as possible. We need places in hospitals. When the Omicron strain will begin to dominate, we must be prepared,” she said.
Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the Omicron-strain of a new coronavirus infection was able to spread faster than the delta version, but the disease caused to them is moved easier. According to WHO, by December 9, cases of omikron-strain infection were identified in 63 countries of the world.