There will be a shift from an initial cautious containment approach in managing Omicron cases. This comes as authorities know more about the Omicron variant now than they did more than a month ago. Lawrence Wong, co-chair of the COVID-19 multi-ministry task force, said this variant is likely to be more transmissible but less severe than Delta. As such, authorities are adjusting protocols to manage Omicron cases in the same way as they do for Delta ones. Professor Dale Fisher from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, who is also chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network at WHO, shared his thoughts on this.
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