Omicron Covid-19 cases 'mostly mild', initial findings show


SINGAPORE, Dec 11 (The Straits Times/ANN): The EU medicines watchdog said the Omicron variant of the coronavirus so far appears to cause milder disease, as early hospital data released from South Africa on Friday (Dec 10) appeared to corroborate its findings.

The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) pronouncement on Thursday echoed that of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both of which separately shared preliminary findings this week that people infected with the Omicron variant tend to suffer less severe symptoms than those who caught the Delta strain.

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