World Health Organization: Omicron may end epidemic in Europe
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23/01/2022
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 19:22 Updated: 19:41
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Demonstration of opponents of vaccination in Austria outside parliament in Vienna (Photo: AP)
A senior World Health Organization official said today (Sunday) that the corona plague in Europe has entered a new phase with the spread of the Omicron strain, which he says could bring it to an end on the continent.
Hans Klooga, Europe's director of the organization, said the variant could infect up to 60% of people in Europe by March.
"The area may be moving towards a kind of final stage of the epidemic," Klooga told AFP.
However, he added that one still has to be careful due to the ability of the virus to change.
Meanwhile, thousands of people demonstrated yesterday and today across Europe against the obligation of vaccines and other restrictions imposed on them by local governments in an attempt to defeat the plague.
Protesters in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, clashed today with police using water cannons and tear gas after refusing to end their march.
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