( Reuters)-The risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times

growing evidence that the delta variant is far better than previous strains at reinfecting people who have

threefold higher risk of reinfection than the currently dominant Delta variant and the Beta strain

This comes after Professor Mark Woolhouse from the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling( SPI-M) which advises the Government said it is “ too late to make a material difference ” to the course of the emerging variant because it is already well placed in the country. But other advisers have insisted that we need not panic either way because the variant is not as deadly as a recent swelling of fear might suggest. Professor Willem Hanekom, Director of the Africa Health Research Institut

are key to mitigating the impact of the variant, new research suggests. The risk of reinfection with

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risk of reinfection, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The WHO, in its weekly

.... Now the country is battling a more contagious variant that may cause reinfection.... While

vaccinated or you get reinfected as well." All patients who had been infected before or are fully

novel illness are at a reduced risk of reinfection....