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Omicron will overtake Delta as most dominant variant in UK ‘in matter of weeks’, expert says
Echoing comments we heard from the scientific community yesterday, the director of the COVID-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute says Omicron will take over from Delta in the UK as the dominant variant within a “matter of weeks”.
Dr Jeffrey Barrett told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think we can now say that this variant is spreading faster in the UK than the Delta variant at the same time, and that’s something that I think was unclear until very recently.
“I am pretty confident that it’s going to take over (Delta) probably in a matter of weeks.”
Asked about the implications of that, he said: “Well, we don’t know and that’s the really critical question, of course, is how many of those cases of which there will likely be a large number will lead to severe disease?
“I think what we have seen so far in South Africa, for example, is possibly consistent with that, but it’s really much too soon to say, and the reason for that is that this variant seems to be able to infect individuals who either have been vaccinated or previously have been infected.”
