OMICRON AND THE FATE OF HUMAN RACE.(up dated)
BY K P PASWAN. It was presumed that mass vaccination of people to combat the deadly Coronavirus was the beginning of the end but there is no end in sight. Detection of a new variant B,1,1,529, supposed to be more destructive than Delta plus reflects the mutation ability of the elusive virus. New variant christened by WHO as OMICRON and declared a variant of concern is posing the greatest challenge to science,as the essential characteristics of this new variant is not known. New variant was first reported in South Africa and its neighbors like Botswana, Lesotho and was carried to Hongkong, UK and a few other European country. But its real origin is not known. A report from Netherlands claimed that that variant was present in Netherlands much before it was reported in Africa. Anthony Fauccy, the outspoken and controversial expert in US jumped to the conclusion that new variant might have entered US undetected. Entire Europe and US are in the grip of Delta plus. There is no ...