What is the Omicron variant of COVID-19?

What is the Omicron variant of COVID-19?

 What is the Omicron variant of COVID-19?

The Omicron variant is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first reported to the World Health Organization from South Africa on 24 November 2021. On 26 November 2021, the WHO designated it as a variant of concern and named it 'Omicron', the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet.

The Omicron variant is a variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Omicron variant is the common name used to refer to what is technically known as the B.

Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 that has been identified initially in COVID-19 patients in Botswana and South Africa. The WHO Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) felt that this virus had too many mutations and may be easily spread globally causing a spike in COVID cases worldwide.

What are some of the symptoms of the COVID-19 variant Omicron?

The most common symptoms for the new COVID Variant “Omicron” are fever, cough, tiredness, loss of taste or smell. 

 On 24 November 2021 (Wednesday), a new COVID Variant was identified in South Africa. The new COVID Variant is named Omicron, WHO or World Health Organization has designated the new COVID Variant as the Variant of concern. 

After knowing that a new variant of COVID has been identified, the whole world is not panicking about this. Through this article, you will get detailed information about the Omicron COVID Variant. We have taken all the details about this variant of concern from a trustable source like WHO.

After the detection of a new variant of COVID, the WHO has advised the country and every individual to follow the SOPs (Standard Operating Protocols).

The WHO has published the advice on its official website @who.int for countries and individuals.

In an article that was published on 28 November 2021 on WHO. int, it is mentioned that 'It is not yet clear whether Omicron is more transmissible (e.g., more easily spread from person to person) compared to other variants.' It may be more transmissible, studies are ongoing, in order to get transmissible details.

In the same article, WHO has said even this 'It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta'

We hope that after reading this article you have gotten in-depth information about the Omicron COVID Variant. Even after reading this article if you have any questions or queries related to Omicron COVID Variant, then ask it by commenting below, we will try to answer all your questions or queries as soon as possible.

Character information Omicron

Preview	𝝤		𝝾		𝞞		𝞸
Unicode name	MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL OMICRON		MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL OMICRON		MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL OMICRON		MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL OMICRON
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	120676	U+1D764	120702	U+1D77E	120734	U+1D79E	120760	U+1D7B8
UTF-8	240 157 157 164	F0 9D 9D A4	240 157 157 190	F0 9D 9D BE	240 157 158 158	F0 9D 9E 9E	240 157 158 184	F0 9D 9E B8
UTF-16	55349 57188	D835 DF64	55349 57214	D835 DF7E	55349 57246	D835 DF9E	55349 57272	D835 DFB8
Numeric character reference	𝝤	𝝤	𝝾	𝝾	𝞞	𝞞	𝞸	𝞸

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