Also read: Omicron+Delta recombinant cases detected from 7 states in India Many other experts have, however, tried to allay fears around Covid, saying it would now only mutate to a mild cold-causing pathogen.
On Covid moving towards endemic from the pandemic stage, Whitty said the virus will now become ‘less dominant'. He also said it's premature to think that Covid has reached a 'stable state'. "We could well end up with a new variant that produces worse problems than we've got with Omicron and the Omicron problems are by no means trivial," Whitty said at the Local Government's Association public health conference, Daily Mail reported.
He said even though there's some sort of de-risking in Covid with time, it's not the same as no risk at all, and that the world needs to be cautious about Covid. Omicron+Delta recombinant virus:- Delta + Omicron recombinant virus is a hybrid version of the coronavirus that combine genes from the Delta and Omicron variants.
With both Omicron and Delta COVID variants spreading rapidly, recombinants were expected, World Health Organisation (WHO) stated recently after the first solid evidence of a combination virus (Omicron and Delta) was detected.