Lower Back Pain, Sore Throat Are Omicron Symptoms; Odisha Recovery Rate Drops To 5%

Omicron (and its sub-lineages) now account for 53.2 percent of the genomes sequenced in the country. Omicron Viral clearing rate is 5.35 days, the time in Odisha is around 14 days

Odisha Recovery Rate Falls!

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As per a recent medRxiv study, in Omicron infection, the viral load gets cleared away in 5.35 days as against 6.23 days in Delta.

Since Odisha has detected its first Omicron case on Dec 21, 2021, in a span of 24-days from then, the number of only 8 recoveries look very poor when seen in the context of the medRxiv study.

With the tally of Omicron variant infections crossing the 200-mark on Saturday in Odisha, and when the onset of symptoms is said to be quicker in infections with this variant of concern, the time is ripe to know about the new symptoms observed among individuals across countries.

While the State is eagerly awaiting the results of 250 samples collected on and around Jan 10 and had been sent for whole genome sequencing (WSG) at ILS, Bhubaneswar, the results of 42 WGS were released today, of which, 32 were found to be infected with the highly transmissible variant.