Denmark has recorded a total of 3,437 Omicron cases as of Monday, while the UK has recorded nearly double that figure with a total of 4,713 Omicron infections. Meanwhile, Norway recorded a total of 958 cases of the variant as of Sunday. The Omicron variant has led to the number of cases in the three countries to skyrocket
* The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said restrictions must be imposed or up to 300,000 people will be infected with Covid every day
* Norway's PM set to announce the country will further tighten Covid restrictions
* Denmark is second worldwide only to the UK in confirmed cases of Omicron, with the Nordic country reporting a total of 3,437 cases since variant emerged
* France set to be hit by a sixth Covid wave in January due to the Omicron variant
Norway is facing an Omicron 'contagion bomb' and unless effective measures are enforced, the country risks seeing up to 300,000 people infected with Covid every day, health chiefs have warned, as the variant begins to wreak havoc across Europe.
The dire warning has prompted Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere to announce the country will further tighten restrictions later this week in order to limit the spread of Covid.
'The situation is serious. The spread of infection is too high and we have to take action to limit this development,' Stoere told news agency NTB.
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Update #1: Denmark Cuts COVID-19 Booster Shot Interval to 4-1/2 Months (Reuters)
Update #2: Denmark's Omicron surge is a warning to the rest of world (Business Times/Bloomberg)
WNU Editor: This is troubling .... Several Hundred Danes Infected With Omicron Strain Despite Being Jabbed Three Times (Sputnik).
3 comments:
Respiratory viruses are like breathing air. You cannot avoid them. You could hold your breath forever, but it is not recommended.
but few or no deaths, say it right WNU
right. no one is dying. except nearly one million in the US. The rest of us do not breathe to avoid the viruses
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