The Omicron variant could see the COVID-19 pandemic enter a new phase of “stabilization and normalization,” a top World Health Organization official said Monday.Dr. Hans Kluge, head of WHO’s European region, said in a statement that, while countries should not yet let their guards down, Omicron offered plausible hope for a return to normalcy with continued vaccination and natural immunity. He pointed to how the latest variant appeared to “cause much less severe disease” than Delta — even though Omicron is highly transmissible and has been driving up case counts globally.
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