Omicron: US to see 140 mn new cases very soon

With Omicron becoming the dominant variant of Covid in the US, accounting for over 73 per cent cases, new modeling data shows that the highly transmissible new strain will cause 140 million new infections from January to March, infecting 60 per cent of all Americans, the majority of which will be asymptomatic cases.

According to researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, while infection will surge, it will have fewer hospitalisations and deaths compared to the Delta variant, USA Today reported.

Meanwhile, Iran reported four new cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its overall tally of the new strain to eight.

On Wednesday, it reported 2,103 new Covid cases, taking the country’s total infections to 6,177,885. The pandemic has claimed 44 lives, taking the death toll to 131,211, an update by Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education said.

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