U.K. reports that Omi Keron strain has three to four times the spreading power of Delta

According to the news from Xinhua News Agency on the 17th, data released by the British Health and Security Agency on the 16th showed that the cumulative number of infections of the new crown mutant virus Omi Kiron strain in the country has surged to 11,708, and the Omi Kiron strain is infected. The R value of the number has risen to between 3 and 5, that is, each infected person infects an average of 3 to 5 people, and the current R value of the Delta strain in this country is between 1.1 and 1.2.

England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty said on the same day that the surge in Omi Kiron strain infections may cause the number of new hospital admissions in a single day to exceed the level of last winter’s peak. At that time, the number of new hospital admissions in the United Kingdom had been More than 4,500 cases.