What impact will it have omicron in hospital services, and this could be the last wave of the COVID-19? They are the two main questions around the variant, much more contagious but less virulent than the previous ones. What do we know about omicron? Six weeks after its identification in South Africa, data from several […]
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Ómicron: two million daily cases of COVID-19 in the world
Updated on 08/01/2022 06:11 pm More than two million daily cases of COVID-19 were registered on average in the world during the week of January 1 to 7, a figure that doubled in ten days, according to an AFP count. In the last seven days, an average of 2’106,118 daily cases were registered. The threshold […]
Everything that is known about the new variant of COVID-19 called IHU
It has been only weeks since South Africa released the Omicron variant to the world and now French researchers are releasing “IHU”. So far there are only 12 cases in the world, all of them reside in the southeast of France. Origin of the investigation The University Hospital Institute of Infectious Diseases (IHU) de Marseille, […]
France: the future vaccination certificate centers the electoral battle for the Elysee
The bill to impose on France A vaccination certificate for many social activities, which begins its processing in the Senate next week, has become a monopoly of the April presidential election campaign with the tirade of Emmanuel Macron against the unvaccinated. Macron’s controversial words on Tuesday, which are understood in an electoral code, ignited the […]
COVID cases skyrocket in Chile and exceed 4,000 for the first time since June
The new cases of Covid-19 soared this Saturday in Chile and they exceeded the barrier of 4,000 infections, with 4,380 new infections detected in 24 hours, the highest figure since last June 27. In the last week, new cases nationwide increased by 78% and only 3 of the 16 regions of the country decreased new […]
Ómicron could mark the end of the pandemic, according to study
Updated on 08/01/2022 04:22 am A study of patients infected with COVID-19 at a large hospital in the South African city where the first outbreak of the omicron variant was recorded showed a wave of infection that moved with “unprecedented speed” and caused illness much milder than the previous variants. That could be an indication […]
This is the contrast between the US and Europe in COVID testing
Updated on 08/01/2022 04:14 am While Americans express frustration over the shortage of COVID-19 home testing, our reality is different in Europe. When I invited some friends to spend New Years Eve at my apartment in Berlin, it was free and quick for everyone to get tested beforehand. And when one of the guests told […]
The Winners and Losers of China’s “Zero COVID” Strategy
The drama of a woman who had an abortion at eight months pregnant at the doors of a hospital and was not treated because her coronavirus test expired has called into question the strict rules antiCOVID in China. In China, the country where the virus was first detected at the end of 2019, it maintains […]
The world exceeds 300 million cases of COVID-19 and fights against omicron
The official number of cases of COVID-19, undoubtedly underestimated, surpassed the barrier of 300 million on Friday, at a time when all countries fight against the spread of the variant omicron and increase vaccination campaigns According to the AFP’s calculation based on official balances, at least 300′042,439 cases of infection have been diagnosed since the […]
How does the Omicron variant work and how can we protect ourselves from it?
Updated on 07/01/2022 09:18 pm The variant omicron it seems to have come into the world to expand very quickly. Almost the entire planet is alert to the number of infected COVID-19, as well as the lethality of this new strain. Under this premise, the National Institute of Health made it clear that the omicron […]