Omicron up to 70 Percent Less Likely to Result in Hospitalization: UK Health Security Agency

A hospitality industry worker waits for customers outside a restaurant in London on Dec. 21, 2021. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

The Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus is up to 70 percent less likely to result in hospitalization, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Thursday.

According to the government agency’s preliminary findings on the new variant, the risk of hospital admission for an identified case with Omicron is reduced compared with a case of the Delta variant.