7 facts you should know about the COVID-19 strain "Omicron"
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10 facts you should know about the COVID-19 strain "Omicron"
It's the fastest-spreading strain of COVID-19 ever.
The COVID-19 strain spreads 2-5 times faster than the previous strain.
Symptoms of people infected with COVID-19 Omicron species have mild symptoms
The Ministry of Health has confirmed that most Omicron cases are asymptomatic. or less symptoms similar to the flu Most of the infected people in foreign countries do not need hospital treatment.
No confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported. The Omicron species died.
original risk group still very risky as before
Although there have not been any deaths or severe symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Omicron species But that does not mean that Omikron is not scary because Prof. Dr. Thirawat Hemajuta, head of the Center for Emerging Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn Hospital states that Omicron germs are easily infected and spread quickly. Avoid the immune system, drug resistance and infection in the body quickly. Able to spread the virus into a wide area, full of severe epidemic features. Often there are patients with more severe symptoms already. can't say that “Omicron infection has flu-like symptoms,” because according to the African data. The infected are in a very healthy age group. Return with severe asthenia symptoms for 2-3 days, so if an elderly person or sick with congenital disease may have more severe symptoms than younger people
The virus may spread through the air.
Prof.Dr. Teerawat It added that there was news that two tourists were quarantined in separate rooms and were infected with Omicron. even though they had never had a chance to come in close contact with each other before until noted that Is the infection spread by air (Airborne)?
More difficult to detect infection
It has been reported that with a very large variation in the genetic code This makes it possible to avoid PCR testing, which is a standard procedure used to test for coronavirus worldwide. These errors range from undetectable omikron genes to detecting 2/3 fragments, inaccurately low levels of pathogen detection but high viral loads. Because genetic code distortion makes PCR detection inaccurate.
In addition, the ATK test kit is not suitable for testing omikron. Although the virus antigen detection can detect Omicron, but with ATK processing slow, it is often a lot of false positives. So it might not be a good choice in the current situation.
Measures to prevent covid-19 Omicron species
Get the most comprehensive coronavirus vaccine Along with finding medicines such as Andrographis paniculata or the antidepressant fluoxamine. (Fluvoxamine) or ivermectin But there are conditions that apply to new covid infections. to prevent worsening symptoms
Take strict personal protection measures such as wearing a mask, washing hands, social distancing.
Raise the level of surveillance at the entrances and exits of the country. and attractions
Doing random screening screening of high-risk groups and influenza patients who are in clusters (Cluster)
Send samples found from travelers or suspects for Omikron strains. at the Department of Medical Sciences