Washington: Microsoft co-founder and Philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that the Omicron variant spreads fast across the globe stressing that Omicron will hit home for all of us. Bill Gates in a series of tweets on Tuesday said that humanity could be entering the worst part of the pandemic.

He said that he has cancelled most of his holiday plans as his close friends are increasingly being infected with the Covid – 19. Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve cancelled most of my holiday plans.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has already said that an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled in the wake of Omicron spread. Omicron is now dominant Covid – 19 variant in US accounting for 73 per cent of new infections. Omicron is spreading faster than any virus in history. It will soon be in every country in the world, he said.

The big unknown is how sick omicron makes you. We need to take it seriously until we know more about it. Even if it’s only half as severe as Delta, it will be the worst surge we have seen so far because it’s so infectious, he tweeted. Gates said that if there’s good news here, it’s that Omicron moves so quickly that once it becomes dominant in a country, the wave there should last less than 3 months. Those few months could be bad, but I still believe if we take the right steps, the pandemic can be over in 2022, he said in a tweet.