LONDON - People infected with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are less likely to become severely ill than those who contract Delta, UK government scientists are expected to announce.
Sources say the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) will “publish its early real-world data on the severity of the disease before Christmas”, according to Politico London Playbook’s Alex Wickham. The overall outlook is reportedly “mixed”, with “some positives and some negatives”.
But the data shows that the highly contagious new variant “seems milder overall”, although “not necessarily mild enough to avoid large numbers of hospitalisations”.
