Dr. Teera Woratanarat, Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Posted a message via private Facebook, indicating that the number of new infections every day in the world now from Asia, Europe and North America Which together accounted for 87.29% of the world, while the number of deaths accounted for 80.22%. Yesterday, the world increased as high as 2,267,864 people, 10,324 additional deaths, a total of 408,596,943 deaths, a total of 5,818,626 people.
for Thailand The epidemic is still severe, widespread and upward. From now on, the number of infected people is increasing, even though they don’t check, don’t check and don’t want to be tested. may cause more social problems It’s not just an economic aspect.
According to the latest UK HSA academic report on SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern andvariants under investigation in England, the 36th edition yesterday (11 Feb.) has updated knowledge of the Omicron covid-19 strain. as follows
- Infection with the Omicron strain of COVID-19, even in adults, is associated with a 50% lower risk of hospitalization and a 60% lower risk of death compared to the previous wave. Lata
But it found that “children under 10” had the same rate of hospitalization as the Delta wave.
“This matter is very important. and emphasizes on parents to take good care of their children.”
- Omicron, the BA.2 strain that was the successor to the original BA.1 strain that dominated the world today. found that the epidemic rate was faster than BA.1
interesting is Mean time since people infected with symptoms started The serial interval for BA.2 strains was shorter than BA.1, with mean BA.2 being 3.27 days (3.09-3.46 days confidence interval) and BA.1 having The mean is 3.72 days (Confidence Interval: 3.62-3.80 days).
In conclusion, Omicron strains that if people spread the infection start to have symptoms. and spread it to others On average, people who have been infected tend to develop symptoms about 3-4 days later.