Covid scientists warn just ‘a whiff of infected breath’ is enough to catch hyper transmissible Omicron variant

Merely “a whiff of infected breath” is enough to catch the most transmissible variant of coronavirus, Omicron, a leading scientist warned this morning. Professor Peter Openshaw, who sits on the UK’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told BBC Breakfast: “Omicron is so infectious. “We’re lucky really that it wasn’t this infectious [...]