‘All Omicron patients stable, symptoms mild’

Variant may turn virulent if it replicates: doctors

Along with growing concerns over the newly-detected Omicron cases in the State, there is also curiosity tinged with anxiety regarding the different ways in which one may have contracted the coronavirus variant, the people they have come in contact with and especially, their health status.

Director of Medical Education K. Ramesh Reddy said that health condition of all the patients with Omicron is stable and that they have only mild symptoms.

However, senior doctors have stressed that it is imperative to maintain all COVID precautions since the variant might become virulent (severe) if it gets a chance to replicate. PHFI’s IIPH-Hyderabad director G.V.S. Murthy concurred, adding that most mutations occur when viruses pass through human beings repeatedly as they try to survive better by adapting to the human host.