UK, majority of London cases omicron by tomorrow, Link to free download of my 2 textbooks
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Campbell’s Physiology Notes
London
Omicron, 40% of cases
Tomorrow, 50% + of cases
Boris Johnson
At least one UK Omicron death
I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus,
I think that’s something we need to set on one side and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population.
So the best thing we can do is all get our boosters.
Mr Javid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59632655
Hospitalisations due to large numbers
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/tom-swarbrick/south-africa-top-doc-angelique-coetzee-stresses-omicron-mild/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59450988
Doctor’s claim that Omicron ‘is mild’ rejected by Boris Johnson
South Africa
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/covid-19-special-reports/the-initial-and-daily-covid-19-effective-reproductive-number-in-south-africa/
Cyril Ramaphosa, 69, tested positive, Sunday
Mild symptoms
Louise
I am in the Western Cape province in SA where we have just entered our fourth wave, behind other provinces like Gauteng, which seems to have just peaked.
Even though our area hasn’t been hit badly by Omicron infections yet, cases are rising quite quickly. Compared to Delta, where you could feel people were very anxious about contracting that variant and almost everyone knew someone in hospital and most knew someone who had died, the mood is definitely different.
We are just not hearing about mass hospitalisations like in the third wave and those that are testing positive are mainly feeling flu like symptoms for a few days and then recovering. We are really hopeful that Omicron is definitely much milder.
US
Cases
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths
Hospitalizations
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations
Pakistan
NIH able to confirm … that a recently suspected sample from Karachi is indeed the Omicron variant
France
Current 5th wave is delta
Martin Hirsch, Paris’s AP-HP hospitals group
Omicron variant, next month
India
Very low rates of infection
Essential no social distancing
Big political rallies
Omicron variant, 36 cases
3% of the virus sequences
Thailand
3 months to booster after 2nd dose
Indonesia
Start vaccinations for 6- to 11-year-olds
Western Australia
Fully reopen borders on 5 February
Expected to hit 90% fully vaccinated target
Norway
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/dec/13/covid-news-live-boris-johnson-warns-of-omicron-tidal-wave-south-african-president-tests-positive
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere
The situation is serious. The spread of infection is too high and we have to take action to limit this development
Denmark
https://files.ssi.dk/covid19/omikron/statusrapport/rapport-omikronvarianten-12122021-k29d
22nd November to 12 December
A total of 2,471 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) SARS-CoV-2 cases in Denmark.
Omicron cases are identified through variant PCR and whole-genome sequencing
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