Dr. Thira raises the results of the World Health Organization research. Pointing out that the Omicron has ruled the world, indicating that the BA.2 strain has begun to rampage, found in 57 countries around the world Suggests that the government should report RT-PCR and ATK data to let the people know the situation
02 Feb 2022 – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teera Woratanarat, Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Posted on Facebook regarding the situation of Covid-19 that has passed 381 million. Yesterday around the world, the number has increased to 2,772,231 people, 10,551 more deaths, a total of 381,675,279 people, a total of 5,702,904 deaths, the top 5 people who are infected. The highest ethnicities are France, America, Germany, Brazil and India.
The number of new infections every day in the world now. from Asia, Europe and North America These accounted for 86.1 percent of the world, while the number of deaths accounted for 81.7 percent. The latest number of new infections from Europe accounted for 54.7 percent of the world, while the number of deaths increased 31.84 percent. Yesterday, the number of new infections was six of the top 10 countries from Europe and 10 of the top 20 in the world.
…Overview of the Omicron outbreak, the average daily number of infections was much higher than the previous wave. Yesterday, nine countries had more than 100,000 infections, and 40 countries exceeded 10,000.
The World Health Organization released the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Update yesterday, February 1, 2022 (Picture 1).
The essence is as follows: Omicron now dominates the global epidemic. It accounted for up to 93% of all strains tested in the past month. Omicron’s original strain, BA.1 and BA.1.1, remained the dominant strain, accounting for 96% of the total. The BA.2 mutant, also known as the Stealth variant, has been detected in 57 globally. countries and found that it is expanding more rapidly in many countries in Europe and Asia Current academic data show that BA.2 is more prone to transmission than BA.1.
BA.2 differs from BA.1 by approximately 40 changes in amino acid positions (photo credit 2-4: Trevor Bedford, FHCRC). If you look closely, you can see that Omicron is both BA.1 and BA. 2 is very different from delta in respect of the receptor binding domain (RBD), but when compared between BA.1 and BA.2, it is very similar in part to RBD, but is very different in the tip. Near terminal domain (NTD)
However, it is necessary to wait for the results of studies on the severity of the disease. and the likelihood of re-infection Including immune resistance to how much BA.2 is different from BA.1 Although currently believed to be immune to resistance no different.
…If looking at the picture of the prevalence of the epidemic of both Delta and Omicron species, our country is very dark compared to many other countries, reinforcing us to realize that the epidemic situation is still severe. Daily confirmed infection numbers does not reflect the actual situation This is because a large number of people who tested positive for ATK and did not have RT-PCR were not included in the report, although current guidelines recommend that people who test positive for ATK undergo quarantine and follow-up care. Therefore, the official daily report should provide a complete report on both RT-PCR and ATK in order to make people know the situation more closely.
put on a mask distance from others Meet people as needed. Take a short time. Avoid eating, drinking, or sharing food with others. If you are unwell, you should get it checked out immediately. The problem in the future that will occur to both the individual, family and public health system is long-term plight or long-term uninfected COVID.
