Omicron Variant: Hospitalisation Rate Lower For Omicron Than Delta Variant Of Covid

COVID-19 infections with the Omicron variant of coronavirus are less likely to result in hospitalisation compared to the Delta strain, according to early results in three studies. NDTV speaks to top doctors - Dr Yatin Mehta, Chairman, Medanta Institute of critical care; Dr Ravindra Mehta, Chief of pulmonology and critical care, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, Dr Vishal Rao, Member of the Genomic Surveillance Committee of the Karnataka Covid Task - on whether these results are a positive sign.

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