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The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" as COVID-19 is transmitting very efficiently and there is no reason for it to
The reduced severity of Omicron is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake", and the next variant could be more virulent, a leading Indian-origin scientist has warned.
While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs less, the virus itself is not intending to become milder.
The reduced severity of the Omicron variant is good news for now, but it is the result of an "evolutionary mistake" and does not indicate that the virus which causes Covid-19 is becoming less virulent, a leading Indian-origin scientist from the University of Cambridge warned on Thursday.