Urgent need to scale-up public health, social measures to curtail Omicron spread, says WHO
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"Omicron appears to spread faster than the Delta variant which has been attributed to the surge in cases across the world in the last several months"
With seven countries in the South-East Asia Region confirming cases of new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the World Health Organization on December 18 stressed on urgent scale-up of public health and social measures to curtail its further spread.
Countries can and must prevent the spread of Omicron with proven health and social measures, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, Poonam Khetrapal Singh said.
"Our focus must continue to be to protect the least protected and those at high risk,” she said in a statement.
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