Reinfection with the current variant of Omicron is 5.4 times higher among people who have already been infected with variants of the coronavirus earlier, the head of Greece’s National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou said at a regular live briefing on Monday.
She explained that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads very quickly to both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Regarding the severity of Covid-19 following infection with the Omicron coronavirus, she noted that patients with this option admitted to hospitals do not need oxygen and their hospitalization usually lasts two days, which is much shorter than the 8 days after the average for hospitalized with previous variants of the coronavirus.
She also said that Omicron’s death rate is currently 6.6%, much lower than the 17% death rate seen with earlier mutations.
At least 40,000 children between the ages of 5 and 11 have been assigned to vaccinate – since December 15, when vaccinations for their age group began – and more than 6,000 of them have already received a dose, the Secretary General for Primary Healthcare said in a briefing. help Marios Temistokleous.
Regarding the booster dose, Temistocleous said 50 percent of the 5,770,000 people eligible for the third dose had already received it. [амна]
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