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After cities, Omicron Covid surge now likely in villages: Experts

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Omicron variant driven wave of Covid-19 will now turn to small towns and villages in the coming few weeks after its transmission in metro cities as each time a wave follows this trend, said Dr Rajeev Jayadevan who is advising Covid-19 task force at IMA Kochi, Kerala. "Each time, a wave first hit high mobility areas which include metro cities and then to smaller areas and villages.

So, within the next few weeks, it (Omicron driven wave) will travel to the smaller cities or towns and then the villages. This is a trend that's been observed worldwide," Dr Jayadevan told ANI.

Speaking about whether Omicron could replace other Covid variants and it is going to remain as a common cold, Dr Rajeev said, "That is not true in fact if you look at the history of the pandemic in the last two years, variants have all died down.

In fact, there is no variant that is survived long enough to be dominant. There may be a few stray cases here and there." He further cited an example of South Africa and said that their waves are classic. "Six months apart the first wave was the original Wuhan variant, the second was Beta, the third was Delta and the fourth was Omicron.

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