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Updated on 02/09/2022 07:53 am Sweden eliminated from this Wednesday all the restrictions in force due to the coronavirus pandemic due to the high percentage of the vaccinated population and the less dangerous nature of the omicron variant. Sweden thus joins Denmark, the first country in the European Union (EU) to lift all restrictions on […]
Tag: Omicron
It is not easy to identify the variants of COVID in the US.
Everyone talks about the delta variant being more lethal and the delta variant omicron it is more transmissible. But how can I know which variant I have? If one gets COVID-19, there are many reasons why we might wonder which variant we contracted. Initial data suggest, for example, that an omicron infection provides better immunity […]
Ómicron: these would be the most effective methods to avoid contagion by this variant
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The omicron variant has a 60% chance of infecting a person one meter away, according to a recent epidemiological investigation by Japanese scientists carried out through simulations on a supercomputer. As data prior to the investigation, the team from the Riken research institute estimated that the omicron variant was 1.5 times more contagious than Delta, […]
PAHO: Omicron infections are slowing down where the COVID-19 variant hit before
Updated on 02/02/2022 02:54 pm Infections and deaths from COVID-19 in the Americas continue to rise, but the increase in infections appears to be slowing in places first affected by the omicron variant, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced. Four million of the seven million new cases reported last week were in North America. […]
The Economist: How does omicron affect the global economic recovery?
The last week of November almost resembled the early days of the pandemic again. World stock markets fell as news broke of the emergence of what is now known as the omicron variant, with investors fearing another round of restrictions or people themselves going into lockdown to avoid contagion. Two months later, the omicron impact […]
Omicron variant is less likely to stop reinfection
New studies suggest that the latest version of the highly infectious omicron variant spreads even faster than the original, and that mild cases of the former might not offer much protection against future infections. The findings cast doubt on hopes that the wave of omicron sweeping the globe could help hasten the end of the […]
This is the first country in Europe to lift all its restrictions due to COVID and return “to the previous life”
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Updated on 02/01/2022 10:37 am Denmark today eliminated all the restrictions imposed by the fourth wave of coronavirus, considering its authorities that the omicron variant does not imply a “danger” for its health or its inhabitants and despite the high levels of incidence registered in the Nordic country. From this Tuesday it is no longer […]
COVID-19: subvariant of omicron BA.2 is more contagious than the “original”, according to Danish study
The BA.2 subvariant of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has advanced rapidly in Denmark, is more transmissible than the more common BA.1 and more capable of infecting vaccinated people, according to a Danish study. The study, which looked at coronavirus infections in more than 8,500 Danish households between December and January, found that […]
COVID-19: ómicron bursts into the end of the world
Considered the most contagious strain to date, the omicron variant it has even managed to penetrate the isolated and southern Chilean region of Magallanes, popularly considered as “the end of the world”. A jump that has disrupted the epidemiological situation derived from the COVID-19 and that has put the national health system on the ropes, […]
Ómicron begins to retreat in the US despite the fact that deaths continue to rise
U.S In recent days, it has registered the first decrease in infections and hospitalizations since the omicron wave began in December, but deaths continue to rise and the White House made this Wednesday a call not to lower the guard and to be vaccinated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the […]