World Health Organization: The combination of Delta and Omicron creates a tsunami of infections

The number of positive cases in the world is breaking records, and the World Health Organization warns of the "double threat" of the two strains.

Meanwhile, Italy, Spain and Australia are shortening the isolation days in order to reduce the economic damage.

Pauchi predicts that the U.S. omicron wave will subside by the end of next month

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30/12/2021

Thursday, 30 December 2021, 09:05

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Woman vaccinated against corona in La Paz, Bolivia, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)

The World Health Organization warns that the combination of the delta and omicron strains of the Corona virus are leading to a "dangerous tsunami" of infected people worldwide, after the United States - with an average of more than a quarter of a million cases a day in the past week - and France, with 208,000 cases a day. .

Denmark, Portugal, Britain and Australia also reported a record number of people diagnosed with the virus, while Poland recorded a record number of deaths - 794. More than three-quarters of them were unvaccinated.

However, several countries on the continent, including Italy and Spain, as well as Australia, have announced a shortening of the length of isolation of those exposed to Corona patients due to fears of prolonged economic damage to millions of citizens being held in homes during the holiday season.

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Existing studies suggest that the omicron - which has quickly become the dominant strain in many countries - causes a milder disease compared to Delta, but is much more contagious.

French Health Minister Olivier Varane told reporters he would no longer talk "about a wave when it comes to the micron, but about a surge".

The chairman of the World Health Organization warned that this was a "double threat" of the two variants.

In Australia they chose to shorten the isolations.

Queue for coronation tests in Sydney, today (Photo: Reuters)

This week, the threshold of one million infected in the world has been crossed in a day, for the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic about two years ago. Dr. Anthony Pauchi, the leading epidemic expert in the United States, told CNN that the omicron wave is expected to peak in the United States in late January, based on its population size and the rate of vaccinators

. Israel, which was the first to do so, is considering starting to vaccinate in a fourth dose, although a final decision has not yet been made in light of the lack of information.

The chairman of the World Health Organization reiterated his criticism of the booster vaccines in poor countries. Vaccinate 70% of the world population by the middle of next year.According to the World Health Organization, almost one hundred countries have not yet reached the original target of vaccinating 40% of their citizens.

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