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China must seek to live with COVID, not defeat it

China must seek to live with COVID, not defeat it

More than two years after the start of the pandemic COVID-19, China it is the only one of the major countries that continues with a zero-tolerance strategy, seeking to extinguish outbreaks as soon as individual cases emerge. That policy seems increasingly untenable. Chinese leaders should now prepare for a change of course. The appearance of […]

Expectations and rehiring in hotels weighed down by the omicron

Expectations and rehiring in hotels weighed down by the omicron

The recovery of Hotels Regarding 2019 figures, it could be extended for up to 48 more months, according to the main stakeholders. The expectations of restoration to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 (38.7%) and 2024 (37.3%) occupy more than two thirds of those surveyed by the abanZa agency and FNSrooms, in their recent report “Situation of […]

Desperately waiting to go from pandemic to endemic

Desperately waiting to go from pandemic to endemic

A growing number of authorities have uttered the word “endemic” more frequently in recent weeks, and internet searches for the term have skyrocketed. It is not only governments that hope that 2022 will be the year in which the COVID-19 can finally take a backseat in public discourse. People are tired and desperate to escape, […]

Less severe omicron reduces estimated vaccine sales

Less severe omicron reduces estimated vaccine sales

evidence that omicron causes less severe disease than earlier variants of the COVID-19 will likely curb growth in sales of vaccines this year as richer countries control purchases, according to Airfinity Ltd. Sales of Covid vaccines, excluding those to China and India, will rise to about $85 billion in 2022, down 28% from an earlier […]

After omicron it is plausible that the COVID pandemic will end in Europe, says the WHO

After omicron it is plausible that the COVID pandemic will end in Europe, says the WHO

Updated on 01/23/2022 01:06 pm The omicron variant of the coronavirus, from which 60% of Europeans could be infected before March, gave way to a new phase of the COVID pandemic in the region and could hasten its end, the WHO director for Europe. “It is plausible that the region is nearing the end of […]

Fauci optimistic about the possibility that omicron in the US will reach its peak in February

Fauci optimistic about the possibility that omicron in the US will reach its peak in February

Updated on 01/23/2022 12:28 pm The main epidemiologist of the Government of U.S, Anthony Fauci, was optimistic this Sunday about the possibility that the variant of the coronavirus omicron reach its peak in the country in mid-February and that from that moment the infections begin to decline. “I am as optimistic as can be. With […]

Djokovic plans to return to Australian Open in 2023, organizer says

Djokovic plans to return to Australian Open in 2023, organizer says

Updated on 01/23/2022 08:24 am Novak Djokovic intends to play the 2023 Australian Open, tournament organizer Craig Tiley said on Sunday, attributing the tennis player’s deportation ahead of this year’s tournament to a “miscommunication.” Tiley has kept a low profile since Djokovic’s deportation, but when asked if the Serb would return to Melbourne for the […]

UK authorities investigate omicron subvariant

UK authorities investigate omicron subvariant

Updated on 01/23/2022 04:28 am health authorities of the United Kingdom announced that they are investigating a version of the omicron variant based on an increase in the number of cases, but that it is too early to assess its importance or seriousness. “The nature of viruses is to evolve and mutate, so it is […]

Foreign mail, the last “plagued” in China due to an alleged contagion

Foreign mail, the last “plagued” in China due to an alleged contagion

Fear has been unleashed among Chinese buyers after the health authorities of Beijing confirmed this last week that the first infected by the variant omicron of coronavirus in the Chinese capital would have been infected after receiving documents from Canada by mail. The virus was detected on the outside and inside of the package, which […]

Ómicron reveals how the hope of group immunity is extinguished

Ómicron reveals how the hope of group immunity is extinguished

It is unlikely that the variant omicron, which spreads much faster than previous mutations of the coronavirus, help countries achieve so-called herd immunity against the virus. COVID-19, in which enough people become immune to the virus to curb the spread, disease experts said. From the earliest days of the pandemic, some public health officials expressed […]