Copenhagen: More than half of the people in Europe are projected to catch Omicron in the next two months, WHO said Tuesday, because millions of people in China face new locking at the second year of Covid’s death in the world.
Variants that are very transmitting have ripped the countries at the speed of Breakneck, forcing the government to impose fresh steps and scramble to launch a booster shot.
Europe has been in a concerned new plague center – the reception and death of hospitals also crawled – and the World Health Organization said Tuesday Omicron could infect half of everyone in the current infection area.
“Health metric and evaluation institutions (iHME) estimate that more than 50 percent of the population in this region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks,” said Hans Kluge, regional director for Who’s European Office.
Which European region includes 53 countries and regions including several in Central Asia, and Kluge said 50 of them had an Omicron case.
Kluge confirmed that Omicron was more contagious from the previous variant, but stress “approved vaccines continue to provide good protection against severe diseases and deaths, including for Omicron”.
The warning bell was exactly two years after the first person died because the virus had just been identified as Covid – a 61-year-old man in Wuhan, China, where the virus was first detected.
Since January 11, 2020, deaths known in the pandemic have surged to almost 5.5 million.
China mostly tame its initial outbreak with a mixture of locking, border closure, and mass testing, but flare-ups in several major cities were testing zero covid strategies just weeks before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The city of Anyang in Henan province on Monday night told five million residents not to leave their homes or drove cars on the road, China’s official Xinhua news agency said.
Last week, one million people in Yuzhou – also a city in Henan – told to stay at home.
Xi’an, home to 13 million people, in the third week of locking.
China reported 110 cases of new local viruses on Tuesday, a small figure compared to hundreds of thousands that appear every day in global hotspots such as the United States.
But they are the cause of the alarm for China’s authority because Beijing prepares to host the winter game, with the event it is estimated to have a strict Coronavirus safety protocol.
Hong Kong, which has several limited border borders of the toughest Coronavirus in the world, also increases its stubborns on Tuesday to fight Omicron outbreaks, close TK and elementary school until early February.
On the same day, Japan extended until the end of next month the strict Covid border policy that made almost all new foreign arrivals.
The Japanese authorities also announced the reopening of mass vaccination centers when they fought an Omicron surge.
Health experts maintain vaccines are one of the most powerful tools available to pandemics.
But deep and often wetting violence against Jab in many countries dramatically became the focus last week when Australia canceled the world’s top men’s tennis player visa on the requirements of Covid’s shot.
Novak Djokovic who was not hidden and skeptical won the legal challenge against the government on Monday, and was looking to defend the Australian Open degree despite an outpouring of anger in the country.
“I can imagine some people will be quite angry about it,” said a 22-year-old Harrison Denicolo fan, who felt Djokovic had to be allowed to play.
In Italy, however, Prime Minister Mario Draghi urged people to get shots because new restrictions came on Monday, except those who were not vaccinated from a large number of public transportation and places such as restaurants, fitness centers, and theaters.
“Most of the problems we face today depend on the fact that there are people who are not vaccinated,” he said.
Covid’s death toll known in Poland, where the government also urged people to be vaccinated, past 100,000, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said Tuesday.
France on Monday said Covid rules would subside for schools as a case number that turned off thousands of classes and triggered concern among parents and teachers.
Under the first change, parents will no longer be obliged to take their child immediately for Covid testing if he is a contact case.
Half of Europe on track to catch Omicron because China locks millions
