Passage Related Omicron In India
No room for complacency (Shaleenta) : On tackling (Mukabla) Omicron Omicron’s mild (gambhir nahi/ saumya) nature is more due to the protection offered by vaccines India recorded its first death caused by Omicron in a fully vaccinated person in Rajasthan on the last day of 2021. The 73-year-old man, with co-morbidities (sah-rugnta) , had tested positive on December 15. Preliminary evidence from South Africa and the U.K. suggests that unlike the Delta variant, a majority of people with Omicron, particularly in the fully vaccinated, exhibit ( pradarshit) only mild disease ( kam gambhir rog ); hospitalisation is relatively less among the vaccinated. A huge percentage of the population in India was infected when the Delta variant raged (rejd) (Hangama) last year. Studies from other countries have shown (Darshaya hai) that such people might enjoy (upbhog kar sakte) the same level or even better protection from severe disease than fully vaccinated people. Hybrid i...