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Omicron variant: UK record cases, party restrictions (everywhere)

The Queen does not give up on the Christmas dinner with guests, but many of his subjects will not be able to. There is a boom in Covid infections in the United Kingdom: 78,610 cases have been recorded, the daily record since the beginning of the pandemic with 160 deaths. There are more than 10 thousand cases connected to the variant Omicron. For Jenny Harries, head of the UK’s Health Security Agency, this variant “is probably the most significant threat to public health since the start of the pandemic.”

«The probability of a further spread of the Omicron variant is very high and vaccination alone does not allow us to prevent its impact; Strong action is urgently needed to reduce transmission and contain the impact on health systems. A rapid introduction of non-pharmaceutical measures is necessary to reduce the transmission of the Delta variant and slow down Omicron, ”said Andrea Ammon, the director of the ECDC, the European center for disease prevention and control.

The Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides he explained that all EU member states “must immediately plan to increase health care capacity, ensure that public health measures are reintroduced and strengthened and that vaccinations are rapidly increased.”

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Not only vaccinations, however necessary, but also new restrictions and controls. It is the path already chosen by Italy which has not failed to create controversy in Europe, but which is inevitable for Mario Draghi: «We have recovered this normality at the price of more than 134 thousand deaths. We will defend it tooth and nail “. The path of entry controls has already been taken by another European country. Greece requires a negative PCR swab performed within 48 hours prior to arrival from 19 December.

The restrictive choice of the Italian government was made to try to delay the peak of the Omicron variant in our country, bringing it to February, when more than half of the population should have the third dose. It is a measure that goes in the perspective of the European indication to strengthen control measures and could be an incentive to get vaccinated for those moving from countries where vaccinations are slow.

Omicron numbers are lower in Italy than in the rest of Europe, with an incidence below 1%. The still dominant variant is the delta, but this new form of the virus spreads more rapidly. There is no data that it can cause more serious diseases.

With a view to controls and restrictions, there are also the choices to cancel street parties between Christmas and New Year. The concert at the Circus Maximus. No New Year’s Eve events in the square in Milan. Prohibitions from Trentino to Campania.

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