A special team of doctors and health experts, that had been formed during the second wave of Covid-19, has now formed a new action plan to prevent the spread of the new Omicron variant in Uttar Pradesh. As part of the plan, the team of doctors from the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow, has come up with precautions that the state needs to take, after taking into account the new variant's effects post-vaccination.

All foreign travellers to be tested

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According to the plan, RT-PCR tests will be conducted on all passengers travelling from abroad, and their samples will be sent for genome sequencing. Moreover, daily monitoring and testing will be increased across the state. Because of the betterment in health infrastructure over the past one and a half years, the state is now prepared to fight off this new threat, reportedly.

Vaccination is key

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According to experts, complete vaccination, along with adherence to Covid protocols, will be the primary measure deployed against the Omicron variant. This highly-mutated variant is much more transmissible than its predecessors. However, experts are also saying that the risk of increased mortality is lesser with Omicron than with the Delta variant that brought about the second wave.

With inputs from IANS