Risk of infection with “Omicron” is doubly rising in plane

Medical Expert of the International Air Transport Association David Powell said that the risk of contamination of coronavirus in the plane rose two or three times due to the new Omicron strain, the Bloomberg reports.

According to Powell, in recent weeks, the new strain of Coronavirus rapidly spread throughout the world, emphasizing that the number of passengers of aircraft before the new year increases significantly.

“Whatever the risk in the case of” Delta “, we will have to assume that with the” Omicron “it will be two or three times higher, just as we observed in other conditions,” the expert quotes “Tape .RU.